Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Ant · Grasshopper · Cicada · Dragonfly
Answer: Ant
Ants live together, with the queen and workers all doing their part.
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Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Ant · Grasshopper · Cicada · Dragonfly
Answer: Ant
Ants live together, with the queen and workers all doing their part.
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Earthworm · Honeybee · Dragonfly · Snail
Answer: Honeybee
The 'honeybee' carries pollen and helps plants make fruit.
🐛 Q. Before becoming a butterfly, what is the young form that munches leaves?
Options: Pupa · Chick · Tadpole · Caterpillar
Answer: Caterpillar
A butterfly goes through a 'caterpillar' stage.
🦗 Q. How many legs does an insect have in all?
Options: 10 · 4 · 8 · 6
Answer: 6
An insect has '6' legs.
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Fly · Ant · Mosquito · Firefly
Answer: Firefly
A 'firefly' makes its own light.
🕷️ Q. A spider has 8 legs. Is a spider an insect?
Options: It's not an insect · It is an insect
Answer: It's not an insect
Insects have 6 legs, so an 8-legged spider isn't one.
Q. What do cicadas mostly do in summer?
Options: Swim · Hibernate · Build nests · Sing loudly
Answer: Sing loudly
Summer cicadas call out in a loud buzz.
🐛 Q. An insect's body splits into three main parts. What are they?
Options: Body, tail, wings · Head, thorax, abdomen · Top, bottom, side · Head, arms, legs
Answer: Head, thorax, abdomen
Head, thorax, and abdomen — three parts!
🦗 Q. Where are an insect's legs attached?
Options: The head · The thorax · The abdomen · The wings
Answer: The thorax
All 6 legs attach to the thorax!
🐜 Q. Which part does an insect use to smell and sense its surroundings?
Options: Its tail · Its antennae (feelers) · Its legs · Its wings
Answer: Its antennae (feelers)
It senses the world with its antennae!
🪰 Q. An insect's eye is made of many tiny eyes together. What is it called?
Options: A compound eye · Glasses · A magnifier · A single eye
Answer: A compound eye
A dragonfly's compound eyes have tens of thousands of tiny lenses!
🪲 Q. What do we call the hard shell wrapped around an insect's body?
Options: An exoskeleton · Feathers · Fur · Scales
Answer: An exoskeleton
Its skeleton is on the outside!
🐛 Q. What does an insect breathe with?
Options: Tiny holes along its sides · Lungs · Gills · A nose
Answer: Tiny holes along its sides
It breathes through small holes (spiracles) along its abdomen!
🦋 Q. How many pairs of wings does an insect usually have?
Options: 1 wing · 3 pairs · None · 2 pairs (4 wings)
Answer: 2 pairs (4 wings)
Most have 2 pairs of wings! (A fly has just 1 pair.)
🦋 Q. What is the correct order of a butterfly's life cycle?
Options: Caterpillar → egg → pupa · Pupa → egg → butterfly · Egg → caterpillar → pupa → butterfly · Egg → butterfly → caterpillar
Answer: Egg → caterpillar → pupa → butterfly
It goes through complete metamorphosis!
🦗 Q. Which insect does NOT go through a pupa stage?
Options: Butterfly · Fly · Grasshopper · Bee
Answer: Grasshopper
A grasshopper grows without a pupa (incomplete metamorphosis)!
🛖 Q. What does a caterpillar do inside its pupa?
Options: Changes its body to become an adult · Lays eggs · Just eats · Just sleeps
Answer: Changes its body to become an adult
An amazing transformation is happening inside!
🐛 Q. What do we call it when an insect sheds its old shell as it grows?
Options: Molting · Hibernating · Mating · Moving house
Answer: Molting
The exoskeleton can't stretch, so it sheds it to grow!
🎵 Q. How long does a cicada live underground as a larva?
Options: A day · A month · A week · Years (up to 17)
Answer: Years (up to 17)
It stays underground a long time, then comes out in summer!
🎵 Q. Why do cicadas sing so loudly in summer?
Options: They're scared · They're sleepy · They're hungry · To find a mate (the males)
Answer: To find a mate (the males)
It's the males singing to call the females!
🐝 Q. Where do honeybees gather nectar?
Options: Soil · Leaves · Water · Flowers
Answer: Flowers
Flowers! To gather a spoonful of honey, bees must visit thousands of them.
🌼 Q. What good thing happens to a plant when a honeybee carries its pollen?
Options: It changes color · Its leaves fall · It wilts · It makes fruit and seeds
Answer: It makes fruit and seeds
Honeybees help plants get married!
💃 Q. How does a honeybee tell its friends it found a good flower patch?
Options: Only by smell · By shouting · By writing · By dancing (the waggle dance)
Answer: By dancing (the waggle dance)
Its waggle dance shows the direction and distance!
👑 Q. Which single bee in the hive lays the eggs?
Options: The queen bee · A worker bee · A drone · A soldier bee
Answer: The queen bee
The queen lays eggs to keep the colony going!
🐜 Q. What do we call insects like ants and bees that live and work together?
Options: Wandering insects · Loner bugs · Social insects · Solitary insects
Answer: Social insects
They split up the jobs and live together!
🐜 Q. What's an ant's secret for marching in line without getting lost?
Options: It reads a map · It follows a scent (pheromone) trail · It follows light · It makes noise
Answer: It follows a scent (pheromone) trail
It follows the scent trail its friends left behind!
🐜 Q. Which ants do most of the work in a colony?
Options: Male ants · Only soldier ants · Worker ants (females) · The queen ant
Answer: Worker ants (females)
Busy worker ants carry food and build the nest!
🐝 Q. Which is more dangerous — a hornet or a honeybee?
Options: Neither is dangerous · The honeybee · The hornet · They're the same
Answer: The hornet
The hornet! A honeybee's stinger pulls out and it dies, but a hornet can sting again and again — far more dangerous.
✨ Q. Why does a firefly light up at night?
Options: To grill food · To find a mate · To light the path · It's cold
Answer: To find a mate
It blinks signals to find a partner!
🪰 Q. What's a dragonfly's secret to being a great hunter?
Options: Poison · Big compound eyes and fast wings · Strong teeth · Long legs
Answer: Big compound eyes and fast wings
It hunts with eyes that see almost all the way around!
🐞 Q. What does a ladybug love to eat?
Options: Aphids · Honey · Soil · Leaves
Answer: Aphids
It eats aphids, which are pests to crops!
🐞 Q. What do a ladybug's bright colors and spots do?
Options: Keep it warm · Help it hide · Make it look pretty · Warn that it tastes bad
Answer: Warn that it tastes bad
It's a warning color saying 'I taste terrible!'
🦗 Q. What do a praying mantis's front legs look like?
Options: Pincers · Webbed feet · Soft cotton · Scythes for snatching prey
Answer: Scythes for snatching prey
It hunts with front legs shaped like scythes!
🦗 Q. What are grasshoppers and crickets good at?
Options: Digging · Swimming · Jumping far with their legs · Only flying with wings
Answer: Jumping far with their legs
Hop! With their strong back legs!
🎻 Q. How does a cricket make its sound?
Options: With its mouth · By drumming its belly · By rubbing its wings · By stomping its legs
Answer: By rubbing its wings
Chirp, chirp on an autumn night — it rubs its wings!
🪲 Q. What do a rhinoceros beetle's horn and a stag beetle's jaws mainly do?
Options: Only chew food · Wrestle other males · Hide · Fly
Answer: Wrestle other males
They use them to compete over a mate!
🦋 Q. What's one way to tell a butterfly from a moth?
Options: Moths have no color · Butterflies are big and moths are small · Butterflies hold wings up when resting, moths spread them · Butterflies fly only at night
Answer: Butterflies hold wings up when resting, moths spread them
Their antennae are different too!
💧 Q. Which insect's larva does NOT live in water?
Options: Honeybee larva · Dragonfly nymph · Mayfly larva · Mosquito larva
Answer: Honeybee larva
The honeybee larva! Dragonflies, mosquitoes, and mayflies spend their young days in water, but bees grow inside the hive.
🦟 Q. Which mosquitoes bite people (drink blood)?
Options: Female mosquitoes · Baby mosquitoes · Male mosquitoes · All mosquitoes
Answer: Female mosquitoes
Only females drink blood, to make their eggs!
🪰 Q. How many wings does a fly have?
Options: 6 · 2 (one pair) · 4 · None
Answer: 2 (one pair)
Unlike other insects, a fly has just 1 pair!
🪳 Q. What helps a cockroach survive so long?
Options: It's big · It's slow · It loves light · It eats anything and hides well
Answer: It eats anything and hides well
It's a tough insect that adapts to anything!
🧵 Q. What does a silkworm make that helps people?
Options: Ink · Beeswax · Silk thread · Honey
Answer: Silk thread
We get silk thread from a silkworm's cocoon!
🍃 Q. Which leaves does a silkworm eat as it grows?
Options: Cabbage leaves · Persimmon leaves · Mulberry leaves · Pine needles
Answer: Mulberry leaves
A silkworm eats only mulberry leaves!
🌍 Q. Why are insects such a successful group on Earth?
Options: They're big · They're slow · There are few of them · There are so many kinds and they adapt anywhere
Answer: There are so many kinds and they adapt anywhere
More than half of all known animals are insects!
🌿 Q. Which insects hide by looking like twigs or leaves?
Options: Stick insects and leaf insects · Ladybugs · Honeybees · Dragonflies
Answer: Stick insects and leaf insects
They disguise themselves perfectly!
🍂 Q. What do we call an insect matching its color to its surroundings to hide?
Options: Camouflage color · Warning color · Neon color · Rainbow color
Answer: Camouflage color
So enemies won't spot them!
🪲 Q. Which strong insect is called the 'king of insects'?
Options: Mosquito · Rhinoceros beetle · Ant · Fly
Answer: Rhinoceros beetle
It lifts dozens of times its own weight!
🥚 Q. How are most insects born?
Options: From eggs · They appear by themselves · They spring from water · They're born live
Answer: From eggs
Insects lay eggs!
💩 Q. What round thing does a dung beetle roll?
Options: A clump of soil · A rock · Fruit · Animal dung
Answer: Animal dung
It rolls dung to use as food and a nest for its eggs!
💧 Q. Which insect glides across the surface of water?
Options: Honeybee · Ladybug · Cicada · Water strider
Answer: Water strider
It walks using the water's surface tension!
💡 Q. Why do insects gather around lights on summer nights?
Options: They fear light · The light is warm · They get confused trying to navigate by it · The light is food
Answer: They get confused trying to navigate by it
It's from the habit of finding their way by moonlight!
🐝 Q. Which grateful insect gives us honey and beeswax?
Options: Mosquito · Cockroach · Fly · Honeybee
Answer: Honeybee
It gives us honey and helps pollinate flowers!
❄️ Q. Which is NOT a way insects get through winter?
Options: Hiding as an adult · Wintering as an egg · Wintering as a pupa · Turning on the air conditioner
Answer: Turning on the air conditioner
Every insect has its own way to get through winter!
🕷️ Q. Which of these is NOT an insect?
Options: Grasshopper · Butterfly · Spider · Dragonfly
Answer: Spider
A spider has 8 legs! It isn't an insect.
🕷️ Q. An insect has 6 legs. How many does a spider have?
Options: 6 · 10 · 8 · 4
Answer: 8
A spider has 8 legs! Different from an insect.
🐜 Q. Which insect protects aphids and gets sweet honeydew from them?
Options: Cicada · Ant · Dragonfly · Butterfly
Answer: Ant
Ants and aphids help each other!
🦋 Q. What does a butterfly use to sip nectar from a flower?
Options: Its legs · A long, coiled straw-like mouth · Its teeth · Its antennae
Answer: A long, coiled straw-like mouth
It unrolls its straw (proboscis) to drink nectar!
🌸 Q. Which is NOT a way insects help people?
Options: They eat pests · They wreck houses · They help pollinate flowers · They give us honey and silk
Answer: They wreck houses
Insects do so much good for nature!
🥚 Q. What does a female mantis wrap her eggs in to survive winter?
Options: A web · A foamy egg case · A mud house · A leaf blanket
Answer: A foamy egg case
They wait for spring inside a tough egg case!
🎶 Q. In which season do katydids and bush crickets sing?
Options: Only at dawn · Summer and fall · Winter · Only when it rains
Answer: Summer and fall
Summer visitors singing in the grass!
💛 Q. How is an insect's blood different from a person's?
Options: It has none · It's usually not red · It's water · It's very hot
Answer: It's usually not red
Insect blood is often yellow or greenish!
🌱 Q. Why shouldn't you handle insects carelessly?
Options: Every little life is precious and good for nature · They're noisy · They're expensive · They're heavy
Answer: Every little life is precious and good for nature
It's best to observe them and let them go!
🌳 Q. What's the good thing to do after observing an insect you caught?
Options: Throw it away · Let it go where it lives · Keep it locked up · Sell it to a friend
Answer: Let it go where it lives
Send it back to nature!
🦟 Q. What does a wriggler (mosquito larva) grow into?
Options: A butterfly · A mosquito · A fly · A dragonfly
Answer: A mosquito
The wriggler in the water becomes a mosquito!
🪰 Q. Why is the emperor dragonfly a hunter of the sky?
Options: It's slow · It only eats nectar · It flies fast and catches other insects · It's venomous
Answer: It flies fast and catches other insects
It catches mosquitoes and flies in midair!
🦋 Q. What does 'metamorphosis' mean in the insect world?
Options: The body changes a lot as it grows · Moving house · Only the color changing · Hibernating
Answer: The body changes a lot as it grows
Like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly!
🦋 Q. Which insect goes through 'complete metamorphosis'?
Options: Dragonfly · Grasshopper · Cicada · Butterfly (it has a pupa)
Answer: Butterfly (it has a pupa)
Egg → caterpillar → pupa → adult: complete metamorphosis!
🦗 Q. Which insect goes through 'incomplete metamorphosis'?
Options: Fly · Grasshopper (no pupa) · Bee · Butterfly
Answer: Grasshopper (no pupa)
It grows without a pupa stage!
🐝 Q. What's the good thing to do if a bee stings you?
Options: Shake the hive · Calmly move away and tell an adult · Grab the bee with your hand · Scream and run
Answer: Calmly move away and tell an adult
Don't provoke them — quietly move away!
🍯 Q. How much honey does one honeybee make in its whole life?
Options: Very little (less than a teaspoon) · A full bottle · A bucket · A whole barrel
Answer: Very little (less than a teaspoon)
That's why honey is precious — it takes a whole hive working together!
🐝 Q. What's the difference between a 'helpful' and a 'harmful' insect?
Options: Their size · Their color · Where they live · Whether they help or harm people
Answer: Whether they help or harm people
A honeybee is helpful, a mosquito is harmful!
🐛 Q. Why does a butterfly caterpillar eat so many leaves?
Options: It's bored · To store up energy to become a pupa and butterfly · The leaves are pretty · Instead of water
Answer: To store up energy to become a pupa and butterfly
It eats and eats and grows and grows!
🐛 Q. What does an insect's abdomen (rear part) do?
Options: Thinking · Digesting and laying eggs · Smelling · Chewing
Answer: Digesting and laying eggs
It digests food and makes eggs inside!
🎵 Q. Which insect clings to trees and sings loudly in summer?
Options: Ladybug · Firefly · Water strider · Cicada
Answer: Cicada
Buzz, buzz — the cicada, star of summer!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Dung beetle · Butterfly · Scarab beetle · Ant
Answer: Butterfly
It's a butterfly, sipping nectar from a flower.
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Dragonfly · Moth · Ladybug · Praying mantis
Answer: Ladybug
The spotted ladybug that eats aphids!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Silk moth · Firefly · Ladybug · Dragonfly
Answer: Dragonfly
The dragonfly, hunting with its big compound eyes! (It rests with wings spread.)
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Praying mantis · Ladybug · Grasshopper · Termite
Answer: Grasshopper
The grasshopper, leaping far on its back legs!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Ant · Honeybee · Water strider · Praying mantis
Answer: Praying mantis
The mantis, hunting with its scythe-shaped front legs!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Bumblebee · Water strider · Stag beetle · Dung beetle
Answer: Stag beetle
The stag beetle, with jaws like antlers!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Caterpillar · Honeybee · Water strider · Rhinoceros beetle
Answer: Rhinoceros beetle
The mighty rhinoceros beetle, with a horn like a rhino!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Butterfly · Hornet · Moth · Mosquito
Answer: Hornet
The hornet — big and very venomous! Watch out.
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Weevil · Moth · Caterpillar · Stick insect
Answer: Moth
The moth, which flies mostly at night and rests with wings spread!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Cricket · Grasshopper · Damselfly · Weevil
Answer: Cricket
The cricket, rubbing its wings on an autumn night!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Mosquito · Caterpillar · Cricket · Butterfly
Answer: Caterpillar
The caterpillar, eating leaves to grow into a butterfly!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Mayfly · Ladybug · Cockroach · Weevil
Answer: Cockroach
The cockroach, which lives well just about anywhere!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Moth · Mosquito · Cicada · Honeybee
Answer: Mosquito
The mosquito — the females drink blood, and the bite itches!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Fly · Firefly · Cicada · Termite
Answer: Fly
It's a fly, with only one pair of wings.
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Cricket · Cockroach · Bumblebee · Water strider
Answer: Bumblebee
The plump, fuzzy bumblebee!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Stag beetle · Stink bug · Scarab beetle · Water strider
Answer: Water strider
The water strider, gliding across the surface of the water!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Dung beetle · Stink bug · Damselfly · Mosquito
Answer: Dung beetle
The dung beetle, rolling dung into a ball!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Cicada · Ladybug · Weevil · Bumblebee
Answer: Weevil
It's a weevil, with its long snout.
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Mosquito · Damselfly · Grasshopper · Stink bug
Answer: Stink bug
The stink bug, which lets off a terrible smell when touched!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Bumblebee · Cockroach · Damselfly · Termite
Answer: Termite
The termite, which lives in groups and gnaws on wood!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Cicada · Hornet · Mayfly · Ladybug
Answer: Mayfly
The mayfly, whose adult life is very, very short!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Damselfly · Stick insect · Dragonfly · Weevil
Answer: Stick insect
The stick insect, hiding by looking just like a twig!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Grasshopper · Aphid · Stick insect · Stink bug
Answer: Aphid
The tiny aphid, which sucks plant juice! It's a ladybug's favorite food.
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Mayfly · Stink bug · Silk moth · Cricket
Answer: Silk moth
The silk moth, which a silkworm grows into! It gives us silk thread.
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Termite · Damselfly · Cricket · Dragonfly
Answer: Damselfly
The damselfly, with a slender body that folds its wings when resting!
Q. What is the name of this insect?
Options: Scarab beetle · Stick insect · Stag beetle · Cockroach
Answer: Scarab beetle
It's a scarab beetle, with a shiny shell.