NATURE TRUE AND FALSEANSWERS TO INSECTSHOW DID YOU DO? CHECK THE ANSWERS TO THE NATURE TRUE AND FALSE INSECT QUESTIONS. 1. FALSE A dragon fly breaths air just like any other insect. 2. TRUE The monarch butterfly migrates north and south following the appearance of the milkweed plant. 3. FALSE Butterflies are diurnal (daytime) but moths are nocturnal and are seen in the evening rather than during the day. 4. TRUE This is why the grasshopper must be able to jump fast and far. 5. TRUE Aphids are plant parasites. 6. TRUE The fly can carry disease and is a pest worldwide. It will walk in excrement and then walk in your food. 7. FALSE Actually, the lady bug is a friend. It does not cause disease and it eats the other most troublesome insects. 8. TRUE If an earthworm is cut into pieces, each piece can still live. 9. TRUE The ant heats it burrows this way because the stone gets hot in the noon sun and retains the heat through the night. 10. FALSE The flashing of the firefly light is to attract a mate. 11. TRUE The mud wasp takes mud and mixes it with her saliva to make a firm cement tube in which to lay her eggs. 12. TRUE If the 3-5 segments next to the thorax are marked above with yellow bands on the front edges, the honey bee is Italian. 13. TRUE and FALSE Ants co-operate well within their tribe, but may have gruesome battles with other tribes. 14. FALSE Only crickets sing both day and night. Katydids sing only at night. Cicadas sing only in the day. All of these insects "sing" by rubbing various body parts together. 15. TRUE Many insects lay their eggs in late summer or fall. These eggs hatch in the spring. 16. TRUE The monarch butterfly, for example, is an insect that migrates. 17TRUE Insects are a type of animal that lack a backbone. 18TRUE There are more than one million species of insects in the world. Some experts estimate there may be as many as 10 million. 19.FALSE Insects can be found in the Arctic and Antarctic in the warmer months., although it is true that they are not common in the oceans. 20.FALSE They have only 6 legs. 21.FALSE Entomologists study insects. Insecticides kill insects. 22.TRUE The temperature of their environment will determine how fast they grow and how active they are. 23.FALSE The desert locust migrates about 2,800 miles every year. The monarch butterfly migrates about 2,000 miles. 24.FALSE The largest insect ever found was a dragon fly with a wing span of 30 inches. It lived about 250 million years ago. 25.FALSE A ladybug is a type of beetle. It can be male or female. 26.TRUE Fireflies, lightning bugs, and glow worms are the same common name of a flying beetle that glows in the dark. 27.FALSE Male fireflies use their light to attract a mate. 28.TRUE While humans can pull about one times their own weight, an ant can pull 52 times its own weight. However I once had an aunt who could pull 52 ants, but I’ll save that for another question. 29.TRUE Up to 659,000 ants have been counted in a single nest. 30.TRUE A housefly can carry dangerous diseases such as dysentery, typhoid, cholera, and tuberculosis. |