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What is an insect?
What do I eat?
Where do I live?
What's eating me?
Who am I?
100
What are arthropods?
A group of creatures with an exoskeleton, jointed appendages and body.
100
How do flies eat?
They have to regurgitate their digestive juices on their food and turn it into a liquid and drink it.
100
Where do ants live and what is it called?
underground in colonies
100
What insect helps control the mosquito population?
Dragonflies
100
I have a hairy body and feathery antennae
a moth
200
How many body parts does an insect have and name them?
Three--head, thorax, abdomen.
200
What do ladybugs eat?
aphids
200
Which bee is raised in the medium sized cell of a hive?
Drones
200
What eats a tomato horn worm?
Brachnid wasps, birds, reptiles.
200
I go through incomplete metamorphosis but do not get wings until I am an adult.
grasshopper
300
What are compound eyes?
Eyes with many lenses.
300
Why do mosquitoes bite?
The females need the protein in our blood to lay eggs.
300
Where do mosquitoes lay their eggs?
In calm fresh water.
300
What eats decaying animal?
Scavengers like magpies or maggots
300
I can lift 7 times my body weight.
ants
400
How many wings and legs does an insect have?
They have 2 sets of wings and 6 legs.
400
What do Tomato Hornworms eat?
Tomato Plants
400
Name two insects that live in the water.
Dragonfly naiads (nymphs), and mosquito larvae and pupae
400
Who is drinking your blood?
a female mosquito
400
I forage for food, feed the babies, and will sting to protect my hive.
worker bee
500
What are the stages of complete metamorphosis?
egg-larvae--pupae--adult
500
What do dragonfly naiads eat?
They eat small fish, freshwater shrimp, tadpoles and other aqautic insects
500
Where do bark beetles live?
Under the bark of trees.
500
Tell two things that you can do to prevent yourself from being bitten by mosquitoes.
Wear light coloured clothing. Don't wear perfume, and stay indoors in the early morning or late evening. Put on mosquito repellent.
500
I make my home from mixing my saliva with wood.
wasp