Body Parts
The number of body parts of an insect
What is three?
Butterflies go through one of these cycles during their lifetime.
What is complete metamorphosis or incomplete metamorphosis?
Before I begin metamorphosis, I am this worm like creature.
What is a caterpillar?
Most highly organized social insects
What is the ant?
Some of the largest common bees
What are bumblebees?
Name the three sections of an insect's body.
What is head, thorax and abdomen?
The largest family of butterflies is the _?_
What is brush-footed butterflies?
The larval form of the Isabella tiger moth is very fuzzy and is notably called _?_
What is banded woolly bear?
What is false? (they are social)
In a bee colony, all the females are called _?_
What are workers?
The number of legs an insect has
What is six?
_?_ butterflies were named for distinctive extensions found on their hind wings.
What is swallowtail butterflies?
These are the stages of complete metamorphosis.
What is egg, larva, pupa, adult?
Specialized ant workers equipped with large mandibles that may be used in fighting for the colony
What is soldier ants?
In a bee colony, all the males are called _?_
What are drones?
Insects have no backbone so they are called
Invertebrates
Second-largest insect order that butterflies and moths belong to
What is Lepidoptera?
When insects shed their skin it is called this.
What is molting?
Dairy ants feed and protect aphids in return for their nectar. What is this an example of?
What is mutualism?
The primary function of the queen bee is to _?_
What is lay eggs?
Insects have these to sense and feel the world.
What is antennae?
The fully developed adult butterfly/moth has a tubular sucking organ called what?
What is a proboscis?
Once a caterpillar hatches, it has silk-spinning organs called what?
What is spinnerets?
Wasps that do not live in organized groups
What are solitary wasps?
Insects that live in large colonies, such as ants, bees, and most wasps are called _?_ insects
What are social insects?