Scientific Names
Bug Orders
What's the Name
Favorite Foods
Interesting Facts
100
What is the scientific name for a praying mantis?
Mantis Religiosa.
100
What order would flies and mosquitos fit into?
Diptera
100
Large wood nymphs.
What is the name of this insect? Cercyonis pegala
100
Name at least three favorite foods of termites?
Wood, cardboard paper, and books (Anything with cellulose).
100
How do night butterflies avoid bats?
They use the ears on their wings.
200
What is the scientific name for a wolf spider?
Family lycosidae.
200
What order do butterflies and moths fit into?
Lepidoptera.
200
What is the name of this insect? Agelenopsis aperta
Field Spider.
200
Name at least three favorite foods of beetles?
Other insects, carrion, and other plant types. Also some aquatic organisms.
200
What amazing spectacle did scientists do with a cockroach?
Brain surgery.
300
What is the scientific name for a monarch?
Danaus Plexippus.
300
What order do dragonflies fit into.
Odonata.
300
What is this insect's name? Pyrrharctia isabella
Woolybear caterpillar.
300
Name at least three favorite foods of dragonflies?
Bees, butterflies, flies, and midges (small slower insects).
300
What do fried spiders taste like?
Nuts.
400
What is the scientific name for field crickets?
Gryllus texensis.
400
What order would beetles fit into?
Coleoptera.
400
What is the name of this insect. Oecanthus fultoni
Snowy tree cricket.
400
Name at least three favorite foods of earwigs?
They will eat clover, dahlias, zinnias, butterfly bush, hollyhock, lettuce, strawberry, sunflowers, celery, peaches, plums, grapes, potatoes, roses, seedling beans and beets, and tender grass shoots and roots; they have also been known to eat corn silk.
400
If it takes half a year for a human to eat his own body weight, how long does it take for a locust to eat its body weight?
A single day.
500
What is the scientific name for a Carolina Locust?Dissostiera Carolina.
Dissostiera Carolina.
500
What order would grasshoppers and crickets fit into?
Orthoptera.
500
What is the name of this insect? Latrodectus mactans
Black widow.
500
Name at least three favorite foods of true bugs?
They eat plants, other insects, or blood
500
What percent of Earth's animals are insects?
80%
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