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Insects

Insects

Name _________________________
Date __________________________

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Insects
All animals with six legs are called insects. Insects were on the Earth millions
of years before people.
Insects live all over the world. There are more insects on the Earth than any
other animal.
There are over 1,000,000 different kinds of insects. Many insects have not yet been
discovered.
Most insects have wings. They all have six legs and three body parts. The body parts are the
head, the thorax, and the abdomen.
Insects are all different sizes. The African Goliath Beetle is four inches
long. Some stick insects are eleven inches long.

Read each sentence. Fill in the missing word.

1. All animals with six legs are called ________________________________________.
3. The ___________________________ Beetle is four inches long.

4. There are more __________________________________ on Earth than any other animal.

5. All insects have _______________________________legs.

6. Some ________________________ insects are eleven inches long.

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Insects
Most insects are small. Some are so small that you need a microscope to see
them.
Most insects have wings. Some have one pair of wings, some have two pair of
wings. Dragonflies can fly up to eighteen miles per hour. They can also fly
backwards.
Insects eyes are usually large and bulging. They use their antennae or
feelers to touch and smell things. Insects ears are usually on their legs or on
the sides of their bodies. Some insects make noises by rubbing their wings
together or by rubbing their legs against their wings.
Insects lay eggs. The eggs are very tiny and hard to see. They lay their
eggs in all kinds of places. Insects might lay their eggs in soil, water, leaves, and inside plant
stems.
Some insects even lay their eggs in animal fur or bird feathers. Some insects take care of
their eggs. Other insects dont need to care for the eggs.
Read each word below. Write the definition on the lines.
1. microscope __________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
2. dragonflies __________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
3.antennae _____________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________

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Insects
Insects live all over the world in many different places. Some insects live on land,
some live in the water, and some in buildings.
Some insects live alone and some live in large communities. Insects might live in
flowers, trees, in the ground, and in ponds and lakes.
Insects eat all kinds of food. They might eat leaves, flowers, seeds, nectar, mushrooms, and
wood.
Some eat fruit, cotton, sap, and garden vegetables. Some insects eat blood and dead
animals.
Other animals often hunt and eat insects. The insects can protect
themselves in may different ways. Some can sting, jump quickly, or fly
away fast.
fruit!
!

!
!

insects!

animals!

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ponds!!

flowers!

sting

Insects
Some insects blend into their surroundings. This is called camouflage. Stick
and leaf insects look like sticks and leaves. Some caterpillars look like twigs.
Some insects are green and look like the plants they live on.
Some insects are destructive. Termites eat wood and often destroy wood in
homes. Bees and wasps can sting. Mosquitoes sting too. They can carry diseases like yellow
fever and malaria.
Some insects like the silverfish and cloth moths eat clothing. Other insects destroy fruit,
vegetable, and cotton crops. Man has to use many kinds of chemicals to destroy these insects.
Some insects are good and helpful. Many of them eat other insects that are
harmful. The ladybug eats insects that are pests to man. Honeybees give us
honey and beeswax.
The silkworm gives us silk. Many insects carry plant pollen from one plant
to another plant. This helps make new plants grow. Many plants and trees would
not exist without insects. Many animals would die without insects to eat

Read each sentence. Circle true or false.

1. Some insects blend into their surroundings.

!

true or false

2. Silk worms give us wool.

!

true or false

3. Some insects like the silverfish and cloth moths eat clothing.
!

true or false

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Insects
Many insects change as they grow. We call this change a metamorphosis.
A caterpillar is one insect that changes as it grows. First the eggs hatch into the
larva or caterpillar. The caterpillar eats and grows. When it is fully grown it
stops eating.
Then it forms a case around itself. This case is called a chrysalis. It changes into a
butterfly while its in the case. When it comes out of the chrysalis, it is soft and wet. As soon
as it dries it is able to fly.
Ants live in colonies or families. There are many different kinds of ants. Some ants live in
trees and some live in the ground. There are three kinds of ants in a colony, the queen, the
workers and the males.
The queen ant lays the eggs. The worker ants all have their own special jobs. Some act as
nurses and take care of the young ants. Some workers hunt food and some do the cleaning.
Honeybees are like ants in many ways. They live in large families. They have queens,
workers, and males in their colonies. The workers gather nectar and pollen from flowers.
They make honey from what they have gathered.
Men and women often build hives for bees to live in. They gather the bee honey and wax
from the hives. They sell it to stores and to large companies.
The wax can be used in polish, candles, gum, crayons, and many other things.
The honey is sweet tasting and is good to eat.
Color the pictures below.

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Insects
A praying mantis is a green insect. It blends with the leaves and grass.
Its forelegs are bent to help it catch food.
The praying mantis eats grass hoppers, flies, and many other insects.
They lay twenty to forty eggs in a cluster on twigs. The eggs are
covered with hard coating. This protects them from the weather and from
enemies.
The eggs stay in this cluster all winter. They hatch in the spring. The newly hatched
praying mantis does not grow wings until late in the summer.

Help the insect find the leaf.

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Insects
Facts About Insects
Insects have segmented
bodies. They have a head,
thorax, and abdomen.

Spiders are not

considered insects.
Female crickets do not chirp,
only male crickets chirp.

Bees are found

everywhere in the
word except for Antarctica.

Most insects are

hatched from eggs.

Most house flies live

for one month.

Insects have six

legs or three pairs
of legs.

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Some worms in Australia

can be over four feet long.

Insects
Spelling
Print the correct spelling word on the line.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

honiy
honey
honie

_______________________

mantis
mantos
mantus

_______________________

protict
protect
proteck

_______________________

coating
couting
coateng

_______________________

nector
nectur
nectar

_______________________

hieves
hives
heives

_______________________

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Insects
Word Unscramble
Unscramble each word. Print the word on the line.

1. nciset

_______________

2. siwng

_______________

3. btefutrly

_______________

4. lfy

_______________

5. gegs

_______________

6. eyhonseeb

_______________

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Insects
Word Find
Find and circle these words.
They run down, across, and diagonally.

head
eggs

thorax
sting

abdomen
ants

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beetle
antennae
honeybee mantis

10

wings
green

Insects
Criss Cross
Can you fit these words into the criss cross?
Use a pencil so you can erase if you need to.

abdomen
wings

antennae
eggs

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thorax
sting

11

beetle
ants

Insects
Answers
Page 8 - honey, mantis, protec, coating, nectar, hives
Page 9 - insect, wings, butterfly, fly, eggs, honeybees
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