QUESTIONS
- Which is the heaviest insect?
- Where do locusts lay their eggs?
- What is the job of the soldier ant?
- Give the other name for the shell of a tortoise or turtle.
- Where is the rattlesnake's rattle?
- Why do glow-worms glow in the dark?
- Bees store food and raise young in hexagonal cells made from what?
- The earthwork has several pairs of tiny bristles called chaetae on its body. What are they used for?
- How do a python and a boa kill their prey.
- The body of an insect is divided into how many sections?
- Where do dragonflies spend their early life?
- The loud ticking sound produced by the death watch beetle as it knocks against timbers to attract a made was once thought to herald what unhappy event?
- What is an invertebrate?
- Into what does the butterfly egg hatch?
- What do the North American Gila monster and the Mexican beaded lizard have in common?
- Where does the silk moth lay its eggs?
- To which order to butterflies and moths belong?
- How does the stag beetle get its name?
- There are three typed of bee in a hive. What are they?
- How do ants recognize one another?
- Which are the largest living reptiles and the closest relatives of the dinosaurs?
- The name of the 'atlas' moth, the largest moth, reflects its size. What is the smallest called?
- What happens to the garden snail in winter?
- What is the name given to the change insects undergo as they change from larvae to adults?
- When a snake has its tongue out, what is it likely to be doing?
ANSWERS
- Beetle
- In sand
- To guard the colony
- Carapace
- The top of the tail
- To attract mates
- Wax
- Gripping the walls of the tunnel as it moves along
- Coil it around and squeeze
- Three
- In water
- Death in the house
- A creature without a backbone
- Caterpillar
- Poisonous bite
- On the leaves of mulberry trees
- Lepidoptera
- From its antler-like horns
- Queen, workers and drones
- By smell
- Members of the crocodile family
- Pygmy
- It hibernates
- Metamorphosis
- 'Tasting' the air to smell out other animals
