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🐞 Insect and bug trivia for kids - quiz with answers

Kids 6-12 · 12 questions

Insects are tiny, but they are everywhere! Buzz through these questions and find out how much you know about bugs.

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How many legs does an insect have?

📋 All questions with answers (for teachers and parents)
  1. How many legs does an insect have?
    Answer: Six. All adult insects have six legs.
  2. What are the three main body parts of an insect?
    Answer: Head, thorax and abdomen. Every insect body has a head, a thorax in the middle and an abdomen at the back.
  3. Which insect lights up at night?
    Answer: Firefly. Fireflies make their own light to signal to each other.
  4. Which of these is NOT an insect?
    Answer: Spider. Spiders have eight legs and two body parts, so they are arachnids, not insects.
  5. What does a caterpillar form before it becomes a butterfly?
    Answer: A chrysalis. Inside the chrysalis, the caterpillar changes into a butterfly.
  6. Who lays the eggs in an ant colony?
    Answer: The queen. The queen ant lays the eggs, while worker ants do the other jobs.
  7. What do insects use their antennae for?
    Answer: To smell and feel. Antennae help insects smell, touch and sense the world around them.
  8. Which insect chirps by rubbing its wings together?
    Answer: Cricket. Male crickets chirp by rubbing one wing against the other.
  9. Ladybugs help gardens by eating which tiny pests?
    Answer: Aphids. One ladybug can eat thousands of plant-sucking aphids in its life.
  10. How many wings does an adult butterfly have?
    Answer: Four. Butterflies have four wings: two front wings and two back wings.
  11. Which mosquitoes bite people?
    Answer: Only the females. Only female mosquitoes bite, because they need blood to make their eggs.
  12. Where do young dragonflies live before they can fly?
    Answer: In ponds and streams. Young dragonflies, called nymphs, live underwater until they are ready to grow wings.

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