Creature Quiz- Insects

Multiple Choice

Where can you find Katydids?

• on the ground blending in to its surrounding

• under tree bark

• trees, bushes, or grasses

• flying through the sky

Multiple Choice

How can a Katydid survive winter?

• they can't but their eggs can

• they bury into the ground for protections

• dig into tree bark for protection

• they migrate south for the winter

Multiple Choice

Katydids can bite you.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

How can you tell the difference between a male and female monarch?

• a black scent gland behind each hindwing on males

• a black scent gland behind each hindwing on females

• having a hindwing on females

• an orange hindwing vs a black one on males

Multiple Choice

What is the most important plant to the Monarch Butterfly?

• Sunflowers

• Wild Rice

• Milkweed

• Tall Grasses

Multiple Choice

How many monarchs migrate south for the winter?

• 500 million

• 500,000

• 50 thousand

• 50 million

Multiple Choice

Which is NOT a way the forest tent caterpillar die naturally?

• wet spring

• disease

• starvation

• predation

• drought

Multiple Choice

What is another name for the forest tent caterpillar?

• canopy worms

• tenters

• army worms

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Multiple Choice

What types of forest are you more than likely to find the forest tent caterpillar?

• prairie

• pines and spruce

• hardwood

• swamps

Multiple Choice

What is the most common disease associated with deer ticks?

• Mononucleosis

• Covid 19

• Lymes Disease

• Chicken Pox

Multiple Choice

How many different tick species are in MN?

• 7

• 5

• 13

• 12

Multiple Choice

Where can you more commonly find deer ticks in Minnesota?

• East and Central MN

• West and Central MN

• Northern MN

• Over the entire state

Multiple Choice

Where can you find mayflies?

• near drainage ditches and sewers

• in all freshwater systems

• in northern lakes

• near the Mississippi River system

Multiple Choice

Many aquatic food webs rely on the mayfly, enough that when they had severe population reductions due to water shortages, the MN ecosystems suffered.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Where do mayflies mate?

• on plants

• in/on the water

• in the air

• on rooftops

Now lets see if you can identify these insects...

Multiple Choice

What type of insect is this?

• Katydid

• Monarch Butterfly

• Forest Tent Caterpillar

• Deer Tick

• Mayfly

Multiple Choice

What type of insect is this?

• Katydid

• Monarch Butterfly

• Forest Tent Caterpillar

• Deer Tick

• Mayfly

Multiple Choice

What type of insect is this?

• Katydid

• Monarch Butterfly

• Forest Tent Caterpillar

• Deer Tick

• Mayfly

Multiple Choice

What type of insect is this?

• Katydid

• Monarch Butterfly

• Forest Tent Caterpillar

• Deer Tick

• Mayfly

Multiple Choice

What type of insect is this?

• Katydid

• Monarch Butterfly

• Forest Tent Caterpillar

• Deer Tick

• Mayfly