Insects 2

- Insects
1. What type of insect is a Whirligig?
Water beetle
2. The daddy-longlegs is the popular name for which insect?
Crane fly
3. An insect’s body is divided into three main parts, the head, the abdomen and which other?
Thorax
4. What is the most commonly consumed insect in the world?
Grasshopper
5. According to the nursery rhyme, which insect is advised urgently to ‘fly away home’?
Ladybird, Ladybird, Fly away home
6. Which insect is the symbol of female potency?
The Honey Bee
7. What insect has a king as well as a queen?
Termites
8. An aggregation of any insect is usually referred to as what?
A Colony
9. What insect can live up to nine days without its head?
Cockroach
10. What is the only insect that can turn its head?
Praying Mantis

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?
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