World Book Trivia Quiz For Kids-5/29-insects

Ladybugs are small insects. They are a kind of beetle. They are also known as ladybirds or lady beetles. They have a round body shaped like half of a pea.

Insects are small animals with six legs. Bees, ants, wasps, butterflies, cockroaches, and ladybugs are insects. So are mosquitoes, grasshoppers, and fleas.

Many people think that spiders are insects, but they aren't. Spiders have eight legs, but insects have six legs. A spider's body has two main parts, but an insect's body has three main parts.

Most insects do not have ears. Instead, they have tiny hairs on their antennae or other parts of their body. These hairs shake when sound waves hit them. Crickets and long-horned grasshoppers have their “ears” on their front legs. Ants and male mosquitoes hear through their antennae.

An insect's body has three main parts. These parts are the head, the thorax (or middle section), and the abdomen.

Male mosquitoes live about 7 to 10 days. Females live 30 days or more.

Some insects are called flies, but they have four wings, so they are not true flies. They include butterflies, dragonflies, and mayflies.

Cockroaches are insects that live in dark, damp places. Many people think of them as pests. They are related to grasshoppers and crickets. Cockroaches have lived on Earth for about 250 million years.

A glowworm is an insect that glows. It is actually a small kind of fly. When the insect is young, it does not look like a fly. Instead, it looks like a small, glowing worm. Glowworms live in Australia and New Zealand.

Most adult insects have two huge eyes. But they cannot move or focus their eyes. They can only see things that are close to them. They have no eyelids, so their eyes are always open.