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Insect Knowledge Quiz

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the differences between insects and true bugs?

a)

Insects have three body parts and six legs, they also usually have 4 wings and 2 antennae, while true bugs have a proboscis to suck juices, true bugs have 3 life stages while insects have 4 life stages

b)

Insects are small while true bugs are large. Insects belong to the class insecta while true bugs belong to the class columbidae. Insects eat fruit but true bugs eat other bugs and decaying carcasas

c)

There is no difference between them, they are both from the class insecta

2.

What insect is this?

a)

Marmarated stink bug

b)

Mealworm beetle

c)

Green stink bug

d)

Green sheild bug

3.

Why are kissing bugs called "kissing bugs"?

a)

Because they kiss eachother when they mate

b)

They make a kissing sound

c)

They suck blood from humans, always bite near the lips

d)

Because they are red

4.

What insect is this?

a)

Brown carpet beetle

b)

Varied carpet beetle

c)

Furniture carpet beetle

d)

Black carpet beetle

5.

What is the biggest bug in the world?

a)

Titan beetles, Goliath beetles, Hercules beetles and giant water bugs

b)

Goliath beetles and titan beetles

c)

Giant wetas

d)

Titan beetles, Goliath beetles, Giant wetas, stick bugs and Hercules beetles

6.

What is the Smallest bug in the world?

a)

Fairyflies

b)

Woolly aphid

c)

Brown tick

d)

Dogfleas

7.

What will this larvae grow up to be?

a)

Varied carpet beetle

b)

Brown carpet beetle

c)

Milkweed beetle

d)

Darkling beetle

e)

Lady beetle

8.

What will this caterpillar grow up to be?

a)

Tobbaco Hornworm moth

b)

Death head hawkmoth

c)

Queen alexander's birdwing

d)

Cecropia moth

9.

Crane flies are giant mosquitos

a)

True

b)

False

10.

What is the biggest moth in the world?

a)

Cecropia moth

b)

Atlas moth

c)

Hercules moth

d)

Polyphemos moth

11.

When is it gypsy moth season

a)

June-August

b)

Mid may-July

c)

Mid may-August

d)

July-september

12.

What is the color of meme's freind

a)

Green

b)

Metallic green

c)

Blue

d)

Metallic blue

13.

When does Meme's freind come and hug her?

a)

Mid May

b)

June

c)

July

d)

September

14.

Breeding mealworms is a buisness

a)

True

b)

False

15.

What will this larvae grow to be?

a)

Ladybug

b)

Lady beetle

c)

Darkling bug

d)

Carpet beetle

e)

It is already an adult

16.

What does LDD stand for?

a)

Lymatria dispar dispar

b)

Leaf dying down

c)

Lymatria dreadful drought

d)

Nothing insect related

17.

What insect's scientific name is lymatria dispar dispar?

a)

Gypsy moth

b)

Dogfleas

c)

velvet mites

d)

Atlas moth

18.

What can we do to protect gypsy moths?

a)

Participate in killing them

b)

Do not kill them and leave it alone

c)

Find all of their caterpillars in there season, raise them, and release the moths when season is over, do this every year

d)

Look at them

19.

Is it good that people are killing gypsy moths?

a)

No not at all, people are being racist to them because of there brown color, and pretending they are pests when you barely see them, they want to make the moth extinct.

b)

Yes, its good they are little brown pests

c)

No, there not even killing them

20.

All insects are invertibrates

a)

True

b)

False

21.

What are the parts of a grasshopper?

a)

Head: Antannae, Jaws, palps, compound eye and foreleg. Thorax: Midleg

Abdomen: Spiracles, Optivisor, Wings, Tibia, hindleg and femur.

b)

Head: antannae, midleg and palps

Thorax: Midleg, wings and femur

Abdomen: Optivisor, Tibia foreleg and hindleg

c)

Head: Antennae, Palps and foreleg

Thorax: Midleg

Abdomen: Wings, spiracles and hindlegs

d)

Head

Thorax

Abdomen

22.

When do carolina grasshoppers come out?

a)

April

b)

Mid may

c)

June

d)

July

23.

What is the life cycle of carolina grasshoppers?

a)

In late summer, they mate, they lay there eggs in autumn and the parents die, the eggs stay in sand for the whole winter, in late spring or early summer, the eggs hatch. The grasshoppers are small for 1 month, and get there wings in mid summer, then they mate, and the cycle goes on each year

b)

In spring they mate, they lay eggs in mid summer, the eggs hatch late winter and the babies come out of sand in june, then they mate, and the cycle goes on each year

c)

The carolina grasshopper lays eggs, the parents die, the eggs hatch and become adults and it goes on each year

24.

What is the most beautiful bug, but people still hate it?

a)

Alexander's birdwing butterfly

b)

Lanternfly

c)

Spotted cicada

d)

Gypsy moth

25.

What bug comes in summer and chirps for a mate all day long?

a)

Grasshoppers

b)

Crickets

c)

Katydids

d)

Cicadas