Underground Bugs
This insect builds underground tunnels and is famous for living in colonies.
Pilgrims or Ants
What are ants?
This flying bug makes honey and lives in a hive.
Winnie the Pooh or a Bee.
What is a Bee?
This small irritating flying bug likes to feast on garbage and food scraps.
Fly or dung beetle.
What is a fly? (dung beetles like feces and eat 200x their weight at night)
This fuzzy insect hides in logs or soil to stay warm during winter.
Sweater Pill Bug or Bee.
What is a Bee?
This underground insect is famous for making loud buzzing sounds above ground
in summer.
Buzz Bug or Cicada.
What is a Cicada?
This wiggly creature lives in soil and helps plants grow by loosening dirt.
Ditch witch or Earthworm
What is an Earthworm?
This colorful flying bug starts life as a caterpillar.
Catbug or Butterfly.
What is a Butterfly? (Catbug is a cartoon)
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This flying insect shows off its tail in the summer night sky. Beloved by children.
Firefly or dragonfly.
What is a firefly or lightning bug? (dragonfly is larger and don't flash off/on)
This spotted bug snuggles together in large groups to survive cold weather.
Ladybug or Waterbug
What is a ladybug?
This bug starts life underground before turning into a flying insect in summer.
Lightning Bug or Grub.
What is a grub?
This insect is known for eating wood and living in underground nests near houses.
Woodpeckers or Termites
What are termites?
The tiny flying insect buzzes close to your ear and can bite.
Earwig or Mosquito.
What is a Mosquito?
This flying insect lives in a colony and tells the others what to do.
Queen Camilla or Queen Bee.
What is Queen Bee?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This insect freezes on purpose and thaws out when Spring comes.
Wooly Bear Caterpillar or Wooly Mammoth
What is a Wooly Bear Caterpillar?
This many legged crawler lives in damp soil and hides under rocks.
Centipede or wolf spider.
What is a Centipede?
This underground bug rolls dirt and helps to recycle dead plants and animals.
Roly Poly or Beetles.
What are Beetles?
This fast flying bug looks like a tiny helicopter near ponds.
Pond Scum or Dragonfly.
What is a Dragonfly?
This home body insect feed on other insects and plants to help in the garden.
Ground Beetle or Beetle Bailey
What is a Ground Beetle?
This bug spends winter underground as a baby before flying in Summer.
Beetle or Monkee.
What is a Beetle?
This bug lives in trees and help discourage plant disease.
Aphids or Spiders.
What are Aphids?
This tiny underground creature can curl up into a ball when touched often called a pill bug.
Medicine bug or Roly Poly
What is a Roly Poly?
This black and yellow flying insect is thin and shiny, and can sting if it feels threatened.
Stinger Bee or Wasp.
What is a wasp? (Stinger bees are fatter and fluffier)
This beneficial insect known by many names that helps control pests on farms and in gardens.
Lady Beetles or Gentlemen Beetles.
What are Lady Beetles, Ladybirds or Ladybugs?
These insects slow way down and hide in tree bark or soil during winter.
Roly Poly or Ants.
What are Ants?
This insect lives in trees, helps with ecosystem balance, and are plant eaters.
Stink Bugs or Roly Polys
What are Stink Bugs?