ANATOMY
The number of legs all insects have.
What is six (6)?
These insects live, work, and take care of their young together.
What are social insects?
The three (3) life cycle stages of incomplete metamorphosis.
What are egg, nymph, and adult?
These two (2) insects are helpful by pollinating plants.
What are bees and butterflies?
An insect's hard outer covering.
What is the exoskeleton?
A set of wings towards the front of the insect.
What are the fore wings?
These insects live alone and take care of themselves.
What are solitary insects?
The four (4) life cycle stages of a butterfly's complete metamorphosis.
What are egg, caterpillar (or larvae), chrysalis (or pupa), and adult?
This insect is harmful by biting and sometimes spreading diseases.
What is a mosquito?
A scientist who studies insects.
What is an entomologist?
This body segment has the eyes, mouth, and antennae of the insect.
What is the head?
Two insects that are social.
What are bees and ants?
Also termites, wasps, and monarch butterflies as they migrate.
As a nymph grows, it does this to shed its covering.
What is molting?
This insect is helpful by eating aphids that destroy plants.
What is a ladybug?
Where a green lacewing's ears are located.
This body segment has the wings and legs.
What is the thorax?
Two insects that are solitary.
What are dragonflies and praying mantises?
Also grasshoppers and house flies.
A nymph looks just like an adult, but doesn't have these.
What are wings?
This insect is harmful by damaging wood buildings.
What is a termite?
What an insect's simple eyes can detect.
What is light and dark?
Another name for the mouth or jaws of some insects.
What are mandibles?
The number of jobs a social insect has.
What is one (1)?
What a caterpillar mostly does.
What is eat?
These insects are harmful by destroying large amounts of crops.
What are locusts?
These two (2) kinds of insects move by flying.
What are bees and butterflies?
Also house flies, wasps, moths, lacewings, locusts, ladybugs, and many more.