General Facts
What is pollination?
Ants and termites are named this, given that they don't like to live alone
What are social insects?
What are butterflies, moths, and skippers?
What are six legs?
The reason some insects and animals have camouflage
What is to protect them and hide them from predators?
What an insect does when it outgrows its exoskeleton
What is molting?
The job of the queen in a termite or ant colony
What is to lay eggs or reproduce?
Where many monarch butterflies spend their winter
What is Mexico?
The three parts of an insect's body
What it means if an animal is extinct
What is that the last living animal of that species has died and the species no longer exists?
The three kinds of insect mouths are named...
What is a sucking mouth, a chewing mouth, and a sponging mouth?
A special fact about a termite’s wings
What is that they are all the same size and shape?
The structure a butterfly caterpillar builds when it enters its pupa stage
What is a chrysalis?
Simple eyes are
What are eyes that only see light and dark?
A group of social insects is called
What is a colony?
The names of all the taxonomy groups
What are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species?
Ants have this special kind of waist
What is a wasp waist, or a petiole?
What a moth caterpillar builds when it enters its pupa stage
What is a cocoon?
Compound eyes are
What are eyes that have hundreds or thousands of little tiny lenses to see?
This country kept silk moths a secret for thousands of years
What is China?
The part of the body that insects use to smell and touch
What are antennae?
The animals that ants sometimes keep as pets
What are aphids?
The name of a butterfly’s mouth part that unfurls to drink nectar
What is the proboscis?
What is the thorax?
What butterflies have on their wings to make them colorful
What are scales?