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?
Insects use their wings to do this.
What is fly?
Ladybugs have two sets of these.
What are wings?
Insects have different adaptations to help them do this.
What is survive?
The number of legs an insect has
What is six?
Before I begin metamorphosis, I am this worm like creature.
What is a caterpillar?
Insects do this to start the life cycle over again.
What is mate?
The outer wings are ___.
What is hard (or red).
This insect flips onto its back and releases a bad-smelling liquid from its legs to prevent birds from eating it.
What is a ladybug?
Name the three sections of an insect's body.
What is head, thorax and abdomen?
Butterflies rely on this as their primary source of food.
What is an all liquid diet?
Insects do a lot of this during the larva stage.
What is eat?
The inner wings are ____.
What is transparent (or fragile)?
The insect can blend in with trees.
What is a walking stick?
Insects have these to sense and feel the world.
What is antennae?
These are the stages of complete metamorphosis.
What is egg, larva, pupa, adult?
Insects do this during the pupa stage.
What is rest?
In the winter, ladybugs do this in the hollow of a tree or under a pile of leaves.
What is hibernate?
This insect dies after it protects itself.
What is a honeybee?
There are believed to be this many insect types in the world.
A. 2-5 million
B. 1-3 million
C. 6-10 million
What is 6-10 million?
Butterflies use these to taste.
What is their feet?
When insects shed their skin it is called this.
What is molting?
Ladybugs love to eat up to 5,000 of these in a lifetime.
What are aphids?
This insect has long back legs that it uses to leap.