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Insects/Bugs Quiz II

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  • Name a small, usually black or brown creature with a long, soft body and no arms or legs, like a snail but with no shell that moves slowly and eats plants.
    It's a slug.
  • Name a common type of worm that moves through the earth.
    It's an earthworm.
  • Name a large, hairy spider that is often poisonous.
    It's a tarantula.
  • Name a small creature with a long, soft, wet body and a round shell, that moves very slowly and often eats garden plants.
    It's a snail.
  • Name an insect that is active during the night and whose tail produces light.
    It's a firefly.
  • Name a very small, black or red insect that lives under the ground in large and well-organized social groups.
    It's an ant.
  • Name a common small insect with two wings.
    It's a fly.
  • Name an insect with a hard shell-like back and a black, shiny body.
    It's a beetle.
  • Name the larva of various beetles, feeding on meal, flour, and similar stored foods.
    It's a mealworm.
  • Name a large insect with a long, thin, brightly coloured body and two pairs of transparent wings.
    It's a dragonfly.
  • Name a large insect with long back legs that can jump very high and makes a sharp, high noise using its back legs or wings.
    It's a grasshopper.
  • Name a very small, thin insect with a long narrow body and many legs.
    It's a centipede.
  • Name a large bee that is covered with short hairs and makes a loud noise when it flies.
    It's a bumblebee.
  • Name a yellow and black flying insect that makes honey and can sting you.
    It's a bee.
  • Name a brown or black insect that jumps and makes short, loud noises by rubbing its wings together.
    It's a cricket.
  • Name a small flying insect that bites people and animals and sucks their blood, sometimes causing malaria (= a serious disease).
    It's a mosquito.
  • Name a small, red, flying beetle that has a round red or yellow body with small black spots on it.
    It's a ladybird.
  • Name a small, insect-like creature with a curved, poisonous tail.
    It's a scorpion.
  • Name a type of insect with large, often brightly coloured wings.
    It's a butterfly.
  • Name a small insect with a long thin body consisting of many parts, each part having two pairs of legs.
    It's a millipede.
  • Name an insect with large wings that is similar to a butterfly, usually flies at night, and is attracted to light, can eat holes in clothes.
    It's a moth.
  • Name a flying thin insect, often black and yellow, that can sting (= produce a small, painful skin injury).
    It's a wasp.
  • Name a very small jumping insect that feeds on the blood of animals and humans.
    It's a flea.
  • Name a small insect with a soft body and no legs that often lives in decaying food and later develops into a fly.
    It's a maggot.
  • Name a large, flat, brown or black insect that can live in houses and places where food is prepared.
    It's a cockroach.
  • Name a small creature with eight thin legs that catches other insects in a web and lives in the houses.
    It's a house spider.
  • Name a small, long thin insect with many legs that feeds on the leaves of plants, and develops into a butterfly or moth.
    It's a caterpillar.