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Random Facts
100
This type of female insect sucks blood from people because they need the protein for their eggs
What is the Mosquito
100
This insect is the most diverse insect with 150,000 species around the world
What is The Fly
100
This insect can be a beetle with wings.
What is The Firefly
100
This insect can fly across the ocean in one day
What is The Butterfly
100
This insect looks especially clownish
What is The Lantern Bug
200
This insect can only eat a nut if it is unsalted and cracked
What is the Milkweed Bug
200
This insect has 40,000 types
What is The Weevil
200
This female insect has a point on the end of the abdomen that helps them lay eggs underground
What is The Grasshopper
200
This insect can swim upside down or backwards
What is The Waterbug
200
This insect is going extinct
What is The Bee
300
This insect eats seeds and crops from farmers?
What is The Cricket
300
There are 114 different species of this type of insect in Michigan?
What is The Dragonfly
300
This insect can live for about a week without its head
What is The Cockroach
300
This insect can carry up to 850 times its weight
What is The Beetle
300
This animal we thought were insects but they are actually crustaceans
What is The Pillbug
400
This insect eats animal dung and drinks nectar?
What is The Moth
400
There are 500 different kinds of this insect in the United States and 5,000 worldwide
What is The Ladybug
400
This insect has special hearing organs on their wings
What is The Lacewing
400
This insect kills more people than lightning, deadly spiders, sharks, and jellyfish
What is The Wasp
400
This insect uses surface tension to walk on water
What is The Water Strider
500
This is an insect that some people eat
What is The Ant
500
This insect emerges from the ground every 17 years
What is The Periodical Cicada
500
This insect can range in size from a half inch to more than 12 inches
What is The Walkingstick
500
This insect lays their eggs on sticks or in the ground
What is The Katydid
500
This insect has been around since the time of the dinosaurs
What is The Termite