Insects and Bugs

What this quiz asks

• The larva of which insect is called a maggot?
• What are the three main parts of an adult insect's body?
• Male honeybees, which have no sting and do no work in the hive, are called what?
• Gardeners welcome this beetle because it eats large numbers of what?
• Only female mosquitoes bite to drink blood.
• Worker honeybees build their honeycomb out of a material made by glands on their bodies. What is it?
• What is the scientific study of insects called?
• Select ALL of these creatures that are arachnids.
• Can butterflies taste with their feet?
• What is the resting stage between a caterpillar and an adult butterfly called?
• Which of these insects makes its own light with a chemical reaction in its abdomen?
• A honeybee worker usually dies after stinging a mammal.
• Order these creatures from fewest to most legs.
• How does a male cricket make its chirping song?
• Spiders produce silk from organs at the tip of the abdomen. What are they called?
• Some North American periodical cicadas emerge every 13 years. What is the other cycle length, in years?
• The silkworm, whose cocoon gives us silk, feeds almost only on the leaves of which tree?
• Where does a dragonfly spend most of its life?
• Which ants carry cut pieces of leaves back to the nest to grow a fungus that they eat?
• Select ALL of these insects that go through complete metamorphosis, with egg, larva, pupa and adult stages.