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Fun Butterfly Facts for Kids - Interesting Information about Butterflies

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Learn All About Caterpillars (Facts For Kids)

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Caterpillar Facts for Kids - Twinkl Homework Help - Twinkl

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Instantly access Twinkl’s printable and digital K-12 teaching resources, including worksheets, eBooks, games, PowerPoints, Google Slides, and more!

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What is a Praying Mantis? Facts for Kids

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There are about 1,800 species of praying mantids around the world. People often refer to any mantid as a praying mantis, but mantises are part of a smaller group within the mantids. Praying mantids are carnivores, eating mainly insects and other small animals. Many gardeners and farmers welcome mantids, because the insects they eat are often pests that hurt crops. In addition to insects such as crickets and grasshoppers, mantids eat spiders, frogs, lizards, and even small birds.

Praying mantids have long necks topped by a triangular head. They can turn their heads 180 degrees-an entire half circle. They're well-camouflaged, adapting colors that help them blend with plants. Some also have amazing body shapes that make them look like leaves or branches. Their front legs have rows of sharp spines to help them hold on to their prey, which they usually begin to eat head first!

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These insects get their name because they have very long front legs that they hold in a position that reminds people of praying. There are about 1,800 species of praying mantids around the world. People often refer to any mantid as a praying mantis, but mantises are part of a smaller group within the mantids.

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Ladybug Facts for Kids | Bug or Beetle ???

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There are about 5,000 different species of ladybugs in the world. These much loved critters are also known as lady beetles or ladybird beetles. They come in many different colors and patterns, but the most familiar in North America is the seven-spotted ladybug, with its shiny, red-and-black body. In many cultures, ladybugs are considered good luck. Most people like them because they are pretty, graceful, and harmless to humans. But farmers love them because they eat aphids and other plant-eating pests. One ladybug can eat up to 5,000 insects in its lifetime! Most ladybugs have oval, dome-shaped bodies with six short legs. Depending on the species, they can have spots, stripes, or no markings at all. Seven-spotted ladybugs are red or orange with three spots on each side and one in the middle. They have a black head with white patches on either side. Ladybugs are colorful for a reason. Their markings tell predators: “Eat something else! I taste terrible.” When threatened, the bugs will secrete an oily, foul-tasting fluid from joints in their legs. They may also play dead. Birds are ladybugs’ main predators, but they also fall victim to frogs, wasps, spiders, and dragonflies. Ladybugs lay their eggs in clusters or rows on the underside of a leaf, usually where aphids have gathered. Larvae, which vary in shape and color based on species, emerge in a few days. Seven-spotted ladybug larvae are long, black, and spiky-looking with orange or yellow spots. Some say they look like tiny alligators. Larvae grow quickly and shed their skin several times. When they reach full size, they attach to a leaf by their tail, and a pupa is formed. Within a week or two, the pupa becomes an adult ladybug. Ladybugs are happy in many different habitats, including grasslands, forests, cities, suburbs, and along rivers. Seven-spotted ladybugs are native to Europe but were brought to North America in the mid-1900s to control aphid populations. Ladybugs are most active from spring until fall. When the weather turns cold, they look for a warm, secluded place to hibernate, such as in rotting logs, under rocks, or even inside houses. These hibernating colonies can contain thousands of ladybugs. The name “ladybug” was coined by European farmers who prayed to the Virgin Mary when pests began eating their crops. After ladybugs came and wiped out the invading insects, the farmers named them “beetle of Our Lady.” This eventually was shortened to “lady beetle” and “ladybug.” NASA even sent a few ladybugs into space with aphids to see how aphids would escape in zero gravity.

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Busy Bees! | Bumblebees and Honeybees | Amazing Animals | SciShow Kids

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Top 10 Bee Facts For Kids You Need To Know | Why Are Bees Important For Our Survival

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Calling all budding - or should we say buzz-ing - young naturalists! Join National Geographic Kids as we get the lowdown on one of our planet's most fascinating insects in our ten facts about h oney bees!

Facts about honey bees

1. Honey bees are super-important pollinators for flowers, fruits and vegetables. This means that they help other plants grow! Bees transfer pollen between the male and female parts, allowing plants to grow seeds and fruit.

2. Honey bees live in hives (or colonies). The members of the hive are divided into three types:

Queen: One queen runs the whole hive. Her job is to lay the eggs that will spawn the hive's next generation of bees. The queen also produces chemicals that guide the behaviour of the other bees.

Workers: these are all female and their roles are to forage for food (pollen and nectar from flowers), build and protect the hive, clean and circulate air by beating their wings. Workers are the only bees most people ever see flying around outside the hive.

Drones: These are the male bees, and their purpose is to mate with the new queen. Several hundred live in each hive during the spring and summer. But come winter, when the hive goes into survival mode, the drones are kicked out!

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3. What are these buzzing bugs most famous for? Delicious 4. If the queen bee dies, workers will create a new queen by selecting a young larva (the newly hatched baby insects) and feeding it a special food called " royal jelly". This enables the larva to develop into a fertile queen. honey! But did you know they produce honey as food stores for the hive during winter? Luckily for us, these efficient little workers produce 2-3 time more honey than they need, so we get to enjoy the tasty treat, too!

5. Honey bees are fab flyers. They fly at a speed of around 25km per hour and beat their wings 200 times per second!

6. Each bee has 170 odorant receptors, which means they have one serious sense of smell! They use this to communicate within the hive and to recognise different types of flowers when looking for food.

Did you know that we have a FREE downloadable 'Buzz about bees' primary resource, all about these awesome insects? Great for teachers, homeschoolers and parents alike!

7. The average worker bee lives for just five to six weeks. During this time, she'll produce around a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey.

8. The queen can live up to five years. She is busiest in the summer months, when she can lay up to 2,500 eggs a day!

9. Honey bees are also brilliant boogiers! To share information about the best food sources, they perform their ' waggle dance '. When the worker returns to the hive, it moves in a figure-of-eight and waggles its body to indicate the direction of the food source. Cool, huh?

10. Sadly, over the past 15 years, colonies of bees have been disappearing, and the reason remains unknown. Referred to as 'colony collapse disorder', billions of honey bees across the world are leaving their hives, never to return. In some regions, up to 90% of bees have disappeared!

We can all do our bit to support these brilliant bugs, gang! Why not plant flowers rich in nectar, such as lavender and bluebells, which will help bees find the food they need? And when your family are buying honey, try to choose varieties that are locally made, to support our honey bees and their beekeepers!

If you enjoyed learning about honey bees, check out these insect articles! Learn 25 cool things about bugs, discover cool ladybird facts, ant facts and dung beetle facts, or find out about the butterfly life cycle!

What did you think of our facts about honey bees? Let us know by leaving us a comment, below!

Images ⓒ Getty Images: Bees on honeycomb, (81154415). Picture of a honeybee on a pink flower: Photograph by Manfredxy, Dreamstime. Picture of a honeybee on a purple flower: Photograph by Daniel Vincek, Dreamstime. Picture of a honeybee on a white background: Photograph by Daniel Vincek, Dreamstime.

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10 facts about honey bees! | National Geographic Kids

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Join us here at National Geographic Kids as we check out ten facts about honey bees! Find out what they eat, how they communicate & why...

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Grasshopper Facts for Kids 🦗 | Learn About Grasshoppers | Nature & Insects

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Grasshoppers are the suborder Caelifera, including locusts. There are 11,000 species, of which 10,000 are in the family Acrididae. To distinguish grasshoppers from bush-crickets or katydids, they are sometimes referred to as the short-horned grasshopper. Species which change colour and behaviour at high population densities are called locusts.

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Army Ants Eat Everything | World's Deadliest

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Fireflies | Firefly Facts for Kids | Why Do Fireflies Glow ?

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It's a quiet, warm summer evening with no human in sight for miles in the woods. As the sun sets, tiny flashes of light start to flicker throughout the trees. At first there's just a few, but soon hundreds of blinking lights are floating in the forest.

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Learn All About Ants  🐜  Ant Facts For Kids 🐜

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Check out our ten favourite facts about ants that are guaranteed to blow your mind...

1. There are over 12,000 ant species worldwide

Ranging from the ant you might find scuttling across your picnic to the ants building underground fortresses in the rainforest, to flying ants!

2. The bullet ant is said to have the most painful sting in the world!

Living in humid jungle conditions such as the Amazon, their sting has been compared to being hit by a bullet - ouch!

3. Fire ants cause over £3 billion worth of damage a year!

North America's red imported fire ant might only be little, but the tiny critters have a painful bite which causes a burning sensation - hence the name "fire ant", which costs the US millions in veterinary and medical bills every year! They've also been known to cause damage to farmer's crops.

4. Ants are the longest living insects

Unlike some bugs who might only live for days or even hours, the queen ant of one particular species - the Pogonomyrmex Owyheei - can live up to 30 years - so be careful not to stand on her!

5. The ant is one of the world's strongest creatures in relation to its size

A single ant can carry 50 times its own bodyweight, and they'll even work together to move bigger objects as a group!

Ants carry leaves and twigs back to their nests!

6. Ants hold the record for the fastest movement in the animal kingdom

The aptly named species of trap jaw ant, can close its jaws at 140mph, which it uses to kill its prey or injure predators. Image if that bit you on the bum!

7. Ants can be found on every single continent except Antarctica

Ironic really, when you consider the name...

8. Ants are social insects which live in colonies

The colony, also called a formicary, is made up of one or more egg-laying queens and a large amount of female "worker" ants who tend to her, build and maintain the nest, forage for food and and care for the young.

Male ants have wings and their only function is to mate with the queen.

9. Ants don't have ears, and some of them don't have eyes!

Ants "listen" by feeling vibrations from the ground through their feet, and eye-less ants such as the driver ant species can communicate by using their antennae!

Plus, they can send chemical signals (called pheremones) released through their body to send messages to other ants! They send out warnings when danger's near, leave trails of pheremones leading to food sources and even use them to attract a mate - a sort of ant love potion!

10. The largest ant's nest ever found was over 3,700 miles wide!

Found in Argentina in 2000, the ginormous colony housed 33 ant populations which had merged into one giant supercolony, with millions of nests and billions of workers!

Images ⓒ Getty Images: Ants on leaf (483596365), Ant carrying leaf (157168347).

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10 cool facts about ants! - National Geographic Kids

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They may be small, but boy are these little critters powerful! These cool ant facts for kids are the perfect way to learn about these incredible little creatures...

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Beetles are insects that have hardened front wings. These front wings are not used for flying. Instead, they cover and protect a second pair of wings. In the past all beetles…

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Fun Moth Information for Kids, Parents and Teachers!

You've seen moths around your home or hanging out near the light on your front porch, but what exactly are they? Are they a relative of the butterfly?

Read our moth facts to learn all about them!

Most moths are nocturnal. That means they are active at night. Because of this, moths navigate, or find their way around, by using the light of the moon.

While moths seem to be attracted to light (for example, a porch light or a fire), they are actually confusing those light sources for the light of the moon. This results in them getting "lost" making it look like they are attracted to light!

Some moths can do "impressions" of other animals. For instance, a moth can make itself look like a praying mantis, wasp, or tarantula to scare off predators.

Moths are great for plants and flowers. In fact, they pick up pollen from every plant they land on.

Not all moths eat holes in clothes! You might know that mothballs got their name because they prevent moths from eating clothing and other fabrics, but actually, adult moths do NOT eat clothes. In fact, adult moths do not even have mouths! Only the young moth larvae eat clothes.

Although it ranges depending on the type of moth, typically a moth only lives anywhere from a few weeks to a few months.

A Mexican "Jumping" Bean jumps because a moth larva living inside the bean squirms when it gets warm.

The female moth lays between 60 and 300 eggs.

There are about 13,000 species of moths in North America and about 165,000 species in the world.

Silk comes from the cocoons of the true Silk Moth. More than 25,000 cocoons must be unraveled to make a single pound of silk thread.

Male silk moths can detect female moths up to several miles away.

Some kinds of moths can stay active in freezing weather because their bodies contain a natural anti-freeze that keeps sharp ice crystals from breaking their cells.

Indian Meal Moth Facts for Kids

The Indian meal moth was given its name after an insect scientist found it feeding on corn meal, also known as Indian meal. They typically live from two to six months.

Size: 5/8"

Shape: Elongated, oval

Color: Copper reddish

Legs: 6

Wings: Yes

Antenna: Yes

Common Name: Indian meal moth

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Lepidotera

Family: Pyralidae

Species: Plodia interpuctella

What Do Indian Meal Moths Eat?:

Indian meal moths feed on dried fruits, grains, seeds, nuts, chocolate, candies, bird seed, dog food, powdered milk, dried red peppers and candy.

Where Do Indian Meal Moths Live?:

Attracted to the light, these bugs are found in bright places where food is stored like restaurants and grocery stores.

How Could Indian Meal Moths Impact Me?:

Moths infest foods, meaning they can be found around food in large numbers. They can contaminate food products by leaving skin and waste behind.

What to Do If You Find Moths:

If you see a lot of moths or are worried about moths, talk to a grown up. You can let them know that information about getting rid of Indian meal moths (and more moth information for kids) can be found at the official National Pest Management Association website.

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Moth Information & Facts for Kids: Info for Students

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You've seen moths around your home or hanging out near the light on your front porch, but what exactly are they? Are they a relative of the butterfly? Read our moth facts to learn all about them! Most moths are nocturnal. That means they are active at night.