ANIMAL TRIVIA QUIZ #10 - 50 Insects Trivia Questions and Answers | Insect Pub Quiz

ANIMAL TRIVIA QUIZ - 50 Insects Trivia Questions and Answers - Insect Pub Quiz

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** Animal / Insect General Knowledge Pub Quiz Trivia Questions And Answers:

1. Approximately what percent of animal life on Earth are insects?
~90% or more

2. True or false. Only female mosquitoes bite humans to get a blood meal.
True. Only females bite; males feed on flower nectar.

3. Are spiders and scorpions insects?
No, they are arachnids.

4. Guess the insect by closeup.
Moth

5. What is hornet’s favourite snack?
A bee!

6. True or false? Fleas have wings.
False. Fleas are jumpers.

7. What is the ladybug’s defence mechanism against predators?
Play dead and then release a bit of foul smelling blood.

8. How many stages of metamorphosis do most insects go through?
4 - eggs, larva, pupa, adult

9. Which ant has the most painful bite?
Bullet ant (Paraponera clavata)

10. True or false? Grasshoppers existed before dinosaurs.
True. Primitive grasshoppers were around more than 300M years ago.

11. What are the three parts of an insect’s body?
Head, thorax, abdomen

12. Which beetle is the strongest insect in the world?
Horned Dung Beetle (Pulls up to 1141x its body weight)

13. What is the insect exoskeleton made of?
Hard chitin

14. Are ticks and mites insects?
No, they are also arachnids

15. Instead of lungs, insects breathe through openings/pores on their bodies. What are these called?
Spiracles

16. What insect was the first living creature to be sent into space?
Fruit fly

17. Insects have both compound eyes and simple eyes (ocelli). What is the latter for?
Light detection

18. What is the loudest insect in the world?
Cicada

19. Guess the insect by close up.
Earwig

20. What is the natural predator of termites?
Ants

21. What is the study of insects called?
Entemology

22. Which body part does the housefly use to taste its food?
Feet

23. The water strider (gerridae) is able to walk on the surface of water. What enables it to do so?
Surface tension

24. What are butterfly wings made of?
Overlapping chitin scales

25. What are the most abundant insects in the world? (at 10-10,000 trillion)
Ants

26. Hornets love to snack on honeybees. What is the defensive mechanism bees developed to combat hornets?
Swarm, raise temperature to more than117F. Hornets can’t survive this.

27. How long can the cicada’s dormancy cycle last for?
Up to 17 years

28. How do ants communicate with one another?
Chemical pheromones

29. What is the difference between grasshoppers and locusts?
Some grasshopper species organize under the right conditions becoming locusts!

30. What is the term for the mosquito’s needlelike mouth part?
Proboscis

31. So what makes an insect, an insect?
(1) Head, thorax, abdomen; (2) mouth, eyes, antennae; (3) 6 legs; (4) exoskeleton

32. Guess what is the insect is pictured below!
This is an aphid!

33. Guess the insect by closeup.
Honeybee

34. True or false? Ladybugs are beetles.
True!

35. How many stomachs do ants have?
2 (storage & consumption)

36. What color is the blood of insects?
Colourless, Pale yellow or green.

37. Are bed bugs visible to the human eye?
Yes. Adult bed bugs are as big as an appleseed.

38. True or false? Ants never sleep!
False. Ants do sleep but only for 1 to 8 minutes at a time.

39. Guess the insect by closeup!
Ant

40. What is the only insect native to continent of Antarctica?
Antarctic Midge

41. What is the egg sac dropped by female cockroaches called?
Ootheca

42. How do female dragonflies avoid mating with undesirable males?
Playing dead

43. Approximately how may times a second does a honeybee’s wings beat?
~230 times a second

44. Around how many silkworms does it take to make one pound of raw silk?
~2500 silkworms

45. Mexican jumping beans are seed pods inhabited by the larva of what insect?
A small moth native to Mexico (Cydia saltitans)

46. How fast can the American cockroach run up to?
5 feet/sec or 1.5m/sec

47. How does the desert dwelling Namib beetle stay hydrated?
Catches condensation with its bumpy shell.

48. Are millipedes insects?
No. They are of class Myriapod.

49. How many eyes do caterpillars have?
12 (6 pairs)

50. True or false. All bugs are insects, but not all insects are bugs.
True. Bugs have straw-like mouths and segmented antennae.

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