Invertebrates for Kids Trivia

1. As shared with ants, what is a name given to a group of honey bees?

From Quiz Oh Honey!

Answer: Colony

Both ants and honey bees are social animals so their shared collective name of a colony makes some sense. In the wild, honey bees house themselves in natural cavities or hang in the open in nests. A beehive refers specifically to man-made enclosed structures. Pictures of man-made hives can be found as far back as before 2422 BC in the ancient Egyptian temple of Nyuserre Ini. In terms of the other options, you could have a school of fish, a pride of lions or a crash of rhinos.

From Quiz Bugging Around

Answer: Manure

Dung beetles roll animal manure into balls, then lay their eggs on them. When the eggs hatch, they have something to eat. Sometimes, to get more dung, they patiently follow animals such as elephants waiting for them to poop.

From Quiz Butterflies Are Free to Fly!

Answer: The Monarch Butterfly

The Monarch butterfly is probably one of the best known butterflies in North America. It migrates from Canada to Mexico each year. It is in the Milkweed family of butterflies. The orange and black pattern on the wings is easily recognizable.

From Quiz Invertebrates

Answer: 95%

Invertebrates are animals that have no backbones. That means only 5% of animals have backbones. Invertebrates can live in all types of habitats, mostly the ocean or other water sources. Some change through metamorphosis as they grow.

From Quiz Insect and Spider Mania II

Answer: Its own egg case.

Although caterpillars don't always eat their egg's case, most of the time they do. After a caterpillar hatches and eats its egg case, the next meals are only of the plant on which their mother chose to lay her eggs. Some caterpillars do also eat other insects.

From Quiz Creepy-Crawlies Do the Strangest Things

Answer: Three

Insects have a head, a thorax and an abdomen. They also have three pairs of legs and some, but not all, have wings.

From Quiz Lobsters

Answer: chitin

The exoskeleton also contains calcium carbonate. A lobster's shell is usually a blue-green color until it is cooked, then it turns bright red.

From Quiz Butterflies

Answer: 30 miles per hour

The speed varies among butterflies (the poisonous butterflies are slower than non-poisonous butterflies). The fastest butterflies can fly at 30 miles per hour or faster. Slow butterflies fly about 5 mph.

From Quiz Oh Honey!

Answer: Nectar

Nectar is a sugary liquid made by plants and taken home to the hive by bees. The nectar then has some enzymes added to it and is stored in honeycombs until it hits around a 17% water content and becomes honey. The honeycomb is then capped with wax and the honey used when needed. Bees do actually use plant sap too, but not to make honey. Propolis is a resin-like substance made with the sap to seal gaps in the hive.

From Quiz Bugging Around

Answer: Ghost ant

Ghost ants, Latin name Tapinoma melanocephalum, are very small, and only 1.3 to 2 millimeters long. However, their queen is about 2 to 3 millimeters long and is the largest ant in the colony. An invasive species, they came from Africa and Asia but can also be found in parts of the US, Canada, Galapagos Islands, and Europe.

From Quiz Butterflies Are Free to Fly!

Answer: the caterpillar

The larva is the active stage of butterfly reproduction. The butterfly larvae (as caterpillars) eat many leaves during this stage.

From Quiz Insect and Spider Mania II

Answer: The Queen Alexandra's Birdwing

The Queen Alexandra's Birdwing often measures around 28 cm across its wings. This huge butterfly is found in the lowland coastal rainforest in New Guinea and has found itself on the US endangered species list as it is under threat because its rainforest habitat is constantly shrinking due to palm oil plantations that are being created there.

From Quiz Insect and Spider Mania

Answer: 3

All insects have 6 legs (3 pairs): any creature that doesn't have 6 legs is not an insect. Insects can't grow back a pair of legs if they lose them like starfish, which can lose their arms and grow them back.

From Quiz Lobsters

Answer: molting

First a lobster must lie down sideways causing the shell to split. The old shell is shed to leave the new, soft shell underneath. Finally, the new shell must harden.

From Quiz Butterflies

Answer: fly

When butterflies fly they travel in a figure eight shape. When it gets too cold butterflies must find shelter. For most butterflies, if their body temperature drops below the middle eighties they will fall from the sky.

From Quiz Sea Monkeys

Answer: water

You can use tap water, but distilled or bottled water is best.

From Quiz Wibbly Wobbly Jellyfish

Answer: Medusa

The Medusa's name derives from an ancient Greek myth about a woman who made the chief goddess in Greece very angry - so she changed the woman into a hideous creature with long writhing snakes instead of hair. If you looked her in the face, look out! You were turned into stone. The shape of Medusa's round head with the long trailing snakes reminded early scientists of a jellyfish, so although many people refer to the main part of this sea creature as a bell, it is actually known as a Medusa.

From Quiz Oh Honey!

Answer: Pollen

Pollen are tiny grains made by the stamen, the male part of a flower. Many plants rely on honey bees to take their pollen to the pistils of other flowers so they can reproduce. Without honey bees, we'd have a much harder time growing almonds, blackberries, oranges and many other crops! Pollen is useful to the bees themselves as it's a good source of fat and protein for the hive. When mixed with water, the pollen can be used to make 'bee bread' which is used to feed the larvae - young - of the colony.

From Quiz Bugging Around

Answer: Zombie ant

The fungus grows on the ant's head, and eventually kills the ant. It is called the zombie ant because before it dies it acts like a zombie, having convulsions, biting the middle of a leaf, and other strange actions. Later, the fungus grows a red berry at the top, to lure birds to eat it, along with the ant. The seeds get pooped out by the bird, fall to the ground, and the life cycle starts again.

From Quiz Butterflies Are Free to Fly!

Answer: Butterfly wings are covered with pigmented scales

Butterflies and moths are from the classification Lepidoptera. Butterflies have pigmented scales making up the colorful wing patterns. Moths, on the other hand, have fuzzy bodies and dull colored wings.

From Quiz Insect and Spider Mania II

Answer: Hercules moth

This huge moth has a wingspan of up to 27 cm and is among one of the largest moths in the world. Hercules moths are found in North Queensland and Papua New Guinea. The caterpillar of this moth has been known to grow longer than 100 mm long. After mating and egg-laying the female dies as it has no mouth parts so it is unable to eat anything. Although the Atlas moth is the largest in the world, it is not found in Australia. The Atlas moth is found in jungles of Southeast Asia.

From Quiz The Wonderful World of Snails

Answer: belly-footed

Some types of gastropods are slugs and snails. Snails are the most common of the gastropods.

From Quiz Insect and Spider Mania

Answer: Exoskeleton

Exoskeletons are very helpful in protecting an insect's body. Beetles such as the Christmas beetle are well known for having very tough exoskeletons.

From Quiz Creepy-Crawlies Do the Strangest Things

Answer: As babies, to find a new home.

When spiders hatch out of their eggs, they spin themselves a long, silk line. They fly when the breeze carries them away to a new home, which may be a long way away.

From Quiz Lobsters

Answer: pincher claw

The crusher claw is bigger and is used to crush food. The pincher claw is not as large and is used to tear the food apart.

From Quiz Butterflies

Answer: Lepidoptera

Butterflies and moths both belong to the order Lepidoptera. "Lepidos" means scales and "ptera" means wing.

From Quiz Sea Monkeys

Answer: No, you need to put the purifier in first

YOu must put in the sachet of water purifier and then wait for 24 hours (one day) before adding the eggs.

From Quiz Oh Honey!

Answer: Hexagon

Honeycombs are made of beeswax, which itself is formed from honey and a bit of pollen. It takes about eight-and-a-half pounds of honey to create one pound of wax. These cells can then be used to store honey and pollen, or to contain their larvae. It's certainly distinctive, but why a hexagon in the first place? Wax is precious, so using it in the most efficient way is important. The honeycomb conjecture is a mathematical proof that shows that a hexagon is the most efficient way of dividing up a surface into areas of equal size with the smallest perimeter (outer edge).

From Quiz Bugging Around

Answer: They eat the male

About 83% of males escape being eaten, but if they are caught the female bites off the head first. A study showed that if the females are not hungry, they are less likely to eat the males. Sometimes, the male performs courtship dances to take the female's mind off feeding.

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