{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/animal-insects-bugs",
 "id": "animal-insects-bugs",
 "title": "Insects, Spiders and Bugs",
 "category": "science",
 "subject": "Animal Science",
 "levels": [
  "k-2",
  "3-5",
  "6-8"
 ],
 "description": "Common insects and other creepy-crawlies and what they do.",
 "tags": [
  "insects",
  "bugs",
  "arthropods"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Bug / term",
 "backLabel": "Fact",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Insect",
   "An animal with six legs and three body parts"
  ],
  [
   "Arthropod",
   "An animal with jointed legs and an exoskeleton"
  ],
  [
   "Ant",
   "A social insect that lives in colonies with a queen"
  ],
  [
   "Honeybee",
   "An insect that makes honey and pollinates flowers"
  ],
  [
   "Bumblebee",
   "A fuzzy, large bee"
  ],
  [
   "Wasp",
   "A stinging insect, many build paper nests"
  ],
  [
   "Hornet",
   "A large wasp"
  ],
  [
   "Butterfly",
   "An insect with colorful wings that drinks nectar"
  ],
  [
   "Moth",
   "A mostly nocturnal relative of butterflies"
  ],
  [
   "Monarch butterfly",
   "An orange and black butterfly that migrates"
  ],
  [
   "Caterpillar",
   "The larva of a butterfly or moth"
  ],
  [
   "Chrysalis",
   "The hard case a butterfly pupa lives in"
  ],
  [
   "Cocoon",
   "A silk case made by many moth larvae"
  ],
  [
   "Ladybug",
   "A small red beetle with spots that eats aphids"
  ],
  [
   "Beetle",
   "An insect with hard front wings; the largest group of animals"
  ],
  [
   "Firefly (lightning bug)",
   "A beetle that glows to find mates"
  ],
  [
   "Dragonfly",
   "A fast insect with two pairs of wings that eats mosquitoes"
  ],
  [
   "Damselfly",
   "A slimmer relative of the dragonfly"
  ],
  [
   "Grasshopper",
   "An insect with strong back legs for jumping"
  ],
  [
   "Cricket",
   "An insect that chirps by rubbing its wings together"
  ],
  [
   "Katydid",
   "A green insect like a grasshopper that sings at night"
  ],
  [
   "Praying mantis",
   "An insect that catches prey with spiny front legs"
  ],
  [
   "Stick insect",
   "An insect that looks like a twig"
  ],
  [
   "Cicada",
   "An insect that spends years underground and then sings loudly"
  ],
  [
   "Aphid",
   "A tiny plant-sucking insect"
  ],
  [
   "Mosquito",
   "A small flying insect; females drink blood"
  ],
  [
   "Housefly",
   "A common fly that tastes with its feet"
  ],
  [
   "Flea",
   "A tiny jumping insect that lives on animals"
  ],
  [
   "Termite",
   "An insect that eats wood and builds big mounds"
  ],
  [
   "Cockroach",
   "A hardy insect found all over the world"
  ],
  [
   "Earwig",
   "An insect with pincers at the tail"
  ],
  [
   "Mayfly",
   "An insect whose adult stage lasts only a day or so"
  ],
  [
   "Water strider",
   "A bug that walks on water"
  ],
  [
   "Dung beetle",
   "A beetle that rolls dung into balls"
  ],
  [
   "Rhinoceros beetle",
   "A strong beetle with a horn"
  ],
  [
   "Goliath beetle",
   "One of the heaviest insects"
  ],
  [
   "Silkworm",
   "A caterpillar that spins silk, used to make cloth"
  ],
  [
   "Spider",
   "An arachnid with eight legs that makes silk"
  ],
  [
   "Tarantula",
   "A large hairy spider"
  ],
  [
   "Black widow",
   "A venomous spider with a red hourglass mark"
  ],
  [
   "Orb weaver",
   "A spider that makes round webs"
  ],
  [
   "Jumping spider",
   "A small spider with great eyesight"
  ],
  [
   "Scorpion",
   "An arachnid with pincers and a stinging tail"
  ],
  [
   "Tick",
   "A small blood-sucking arachnid"
  ],
  [
   "Mite",
   "A tiny arachnid"
  ],
  [
   "Millipede",
   "A many-legged arthropod that eats decaying matter"
  ],
  [
   "Centipede",
   "An arthropod with one pair of legs per body segment"
  ],
  [
   "Pill bug (roly-poly)",
   "A crustacean that curls into a ball"
  ],
  [
   "Snail",
   "A mollusk with a spiral shell, not an insect"
  ],
  [
   "Slug",
   "A snail without a shell, not an insect"
  ],
  [
   "Earthworm",
   "A segmented worm that loosens soil"
  ],
  [
   "Antennae",
   "Feelers on an insect's head for smelling and touching"
  ],
  [
   "Compound eye",
   "An eye made of many tiny lenses"
  ],
  [
   "Thorax",
   "The middle body part where wings and legs attach"
  ],
  [
   "Abdomen",
   "The rear body part of an insect"
  ],
  [
   "Exoskeleton",
   "A hard outer skeleton"
  ],
  [
   "Metamorphosis",
   "Big change in body form during growth"
  ],
  [
   "Complete metamorphosis",
   "Egg, larva, pupa, adult"
  ],
  [
   "Incomplete metamorphosis",
   "Egg, nymph, adult"
  ],
  [
   "Larva",
   "A young insect that looks different from the adult"
  ],
  [
   "Pupa",
   "A resting stage between larva and adult"
  ],
  [
   "Nymph",
   "A young insect that looks like a small adult"
  ],
  [
   "Pollinator",
   "An animal that carries pollen between flowers"
  ],
  [
   "Colony",
   "A group of social insects living together"
  ],
  [
   "Queen bee",
   "The egg-laying bee in a hive"
  ],
  [
   "Worker bee",
   "A female bee that collects food and builds the hive"
  ],
  [
   "Drone",
   "A male bee"
  ],
  [
   "Hive",
   "A bee home"
  ],
  [
   "Honeycomb",
   "Wax cells where bees store honey and raise young"
  ],
  [
   "Waggle dance",
   "How honeybees tell others where flowers are"
  ],
  [
   "Anthill",
   "A mound of earth built by ants"
  ],
  [
   "Camouflage in insects",
   "Walking sticks and leaf insects blend in"
  ],
  [
   "Entomologist",
   "A scientist who studies insects"
  ],
  [
   "Insect with the most species",
   "Beetles"
  ],
  [
   "Do spiders count as insects?",
   "No; they have eight legs and two body parts"
  ],
  [
   "Silk",
   "Strong thread made by spiders and silkworms"
  ],
  [
   "Web",
   "A trap made of spider silk"
  ],
  [
   "Insect wings",
   "Most adult insects have four wings; flies have two"
  ],
  [
   "Pheromone",
   "A chemical signal used by insects"
  ],
  [
   "Beneficial insects",
   "Insects that help people, like bees and ladybugs"
  ],
  [
   "Pest",
   "An insect that harms crops or spreads disease"
  ]
 ]
}