Insects

Insects
1. In the insect world, what are brimstones, small coppers and commas?
Butterflies
2. Which common garden insect gets its scientific name from the latin for ‘little scissors’?
Earwig – (forficula)
3. What insect can also be known as the devil's darning needle?
Dragonfly
4. What do female mosquitoes feed on?
Blood
5. What name is given to a male non-working bee?
Drone
6. The Bombyx Mori produces in its cocoon a fine, lustrous fibre used to make a certain high
quality cloth. Which cloth?
Silk – The Bombyx Mori is the silkworm
7. By what common name are headlice known?
Nits
8. What is the worlds longest insect?
Borneo stick insect
9. 'Garden Tiger' and 'Hornet Clearwing' are species of which insect?
Moth
10. The female of which insect frequently bites off the head of the male during reproduction?
Praying Mantis 6 -