Insects
Are insects vertebrates (have a backbone) or invertebrates (do not have a backbone)?
Is an arachnid an invertebrate (no backbone) or vertebrate (backbone)?
Invertebrate (no backbone)
What is the name of the ant who has wings and babies?
The Queen
These insects can jump 20 times their size or almost 3 feet.
Grasshoppers
Carpenter, Fire, and House are all types of these insects.
Ants
How many legs do insects have?
Six-6
How many legs do arachnids have?
Eight-8
All worker bees are __________.
Female-Girls
These female insects bite and drink blood.
Mosquitoes
This type of insect is the most colorful and has a life cycle of 4 stages.
Bonus-what are the 4 stages?
Butterflies
Bonus-egg, caterpillar, pupa, adult
How many wings do insects have?
2 pairs of wings
What do insects have that arachnids do not?
wings and antenna
Ladybugs are this type of insect.
Beetles
This is an arachnid's way to defend themselves.
They can rub the spiky hairs on their abdomen with their legs and "shoot" them at predators.
This type of insect can walk upside down, can see behind them, and poops ALOT!
Flies
What kind of eyes do insects have?
compound eyes
head and abdomen
These insects can tell the temperature based on the rate of their "chirping".
Crickets
These brown spiders bite with fangs and poison their victims. They can survive months without food and water.
Brown recluse
This type of insect is the strongest in the world.
Dung beetle
What are the names of the 3 parts of the insect body?
head, thorax, abdomen
How do arachnids catch their prey?
These insects throw up on their food to liquefy it before they suck it up in a straw-like mouth.
Flies
These black spiders are the most venomous in North America, and the females eat their mates.
Black widow
This type of arachnid is the one Mrs. Bruck hates the most, and she won't ever go to the Amazon because this lives here.
Goliath birdeater-it is the size of a dinner plate!