{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/fun-insects-and-bugs",
 "id": "fun-insects-and-bugs",
 "title": "Insects and Bugs",
 "category": "trivia-fun",
 "subject": "Insects",
 "levels": [
  "k-2",
  "3-5",
  "6-8"
 ],
 "description": "Insects, spiders and other creepy-crawlies.",
 "tags": [
  "insects",
  "bugs",
  "spiders"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Bug",
 "backLabel": "Fact",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Ladybug",
   "A beetle with spots that eats aphids"
  ],
  [
   "Honeybee",
   "Makes honey and pollinates flowers"
  ],
  [
   "Bumblebee",
   "A big fuzzy bee"
  ],
  [
   "Butterfly",
   "Has colorful wings and drinks nectar"
  ],
  [
   "Moth",
   "A winged insect that often flies at night"
  ],
  [
   "Dragonfly",
   "A fast flyer with two pairs of wings"
  ],
  [
   "Grasshopper",
   "Jumps with strong back legs"
  ],
  [
   "Cricket",
   "Chirps by rubbing its wings together"
  ],
  [
   "Praying mantis",
   "A hunter that holds its front legs like it is praying"
  ],
  [
   "Firefly",
   "A beetle that glows to find friends"
  ],
  [
   "Ant",
   "Lives in colonies and works as a team"
  ],
  [
   "Termite",
   "Chews wood and builds mounds"
  ],
  [
   "Mosquito",
   "Female bites to drink blood"
  ],
  [
   "Housefly",
   "Tastes with its feet"
  ],
  [
   "Beetle",
   "Has hard wing covers; the biggest group of insects"
  ],
  [
   "Stag beetle",
   "A beetle with large jaws like antlers"
  ],
  [
   "Dung beetle",
   "Rolls balls of dung"
  ],
  [
   "Cicada",
   "Spends years underground, then sings loudly"
  ],
  [
   "Walking stick",
   "An insect that looks like a twig"
  ],
  [
   "Aphid",
   "A tiny insect that sucks plant juices"
  ],
  [
   "Flea",
   "A tiny jumper"
  ],
  [
   "Earwig",
   "An insect with pincers on its tail"
  ],
  [
   "Cockroach",
   "A tough insect that has been around since before dinosaurs"
  ],
  [
   "Wasp",
   "A stinging insect that builds paper nests"
  ],
  [
   "Hornet",
   "A large kind of wasp"
  ],
  [
   "Caterpillar",
   "The larva of a butterfly or moth"
  ],
  [
   "Chrysalis",
   "The case a butterfly caterpillar forms to change inside"
  ],
  [
   "Cocoon",
   "The silk case many moth caterpillars spin"
  ],
  [
   "Metamorphosis",
   "A big body change, like caterpillar to butterfly"
  ],
  [
   "Monarch butterfly",
   "Migrates thousands of miles to Mexico"
  ],
  [
   "Luna moth",
   "A big pale green moth"
  ],
  [
   "Silkworm",
   "A caterpillar whose cocoon gives us silk"
  ],
  [
   "Spider",
   "Not an insect: it has eight legs"
  ],
  [
   "Black widow",
   "A spider with a red hourglass mark; wild ones are best left alone"
  ],
  [
   "Tarantula",
   "A large hairy spider"
  ],
  [
   "Orb weaver",
   "A spider that spins round webs"
  ],
  [
   "Jumping spider",
   "A tiny spider with good eyes that leaps on prey"
  ],
  [
   "Scorpion",
   "A relative of spiders with a stinging tail"
  ],
  [
   "Tick",
   "A tiny spider relative that feeds on blood"
  ],
  [
   "Centipede",
   "Has one pair of legs per body segment"
  ],
  [
   "Millipede",
   "Has two pairs of legs per segment"
  ],
  [
   "Pill bug",
   "Also called a roly-poly; it curls into a ball"
  ],
  [
   "Snail",
   "Not an insect; it is a mollusk"
  ],
  [
   "Earthworm",
   "Not an insect; it helps soil"
  ],
  [
   "How many legs does an insect have?",
   "Six"
  ],
  [
   "How many body parts does an insect have?",
   "Three: head, thorax and abdomen"
  ],
  [
   "How many legs does a spider have?",
   "Eight"
  ],
  [
   "Antennae",
   "Feelers used to smell and touch"
  ],
  [
   "Exoskeleton",
   "A hard outside skeleton"
  ],
  [
   "Pollinator",
   "An animal that moves pollen from flower to flower"
  ],
  [
   "Larva",
   "The young, wormlike stage of many insects"
  ],
  [
   "Pupa",
   "The resting stage when a larva changes"
  ],
  [
   "Nymph",
   "A young insect that looks like a small adult"
  ],
  [
   "Compound eye",
   "An eye made of many tiny lenses"
  ],
  [
   "Hive",
   "A beehive where honeybees live"
  ],
  [
   "Queen bee",
   "The bee that lays all the eggs"
  ],
  [
   "Worker bee",
   "A bee that gathers food and cares for the hive"
  ],
  [
   "Waggle dance",
   "A honeybee dance that tells where flowers are"
  ],
  [
   "Entomologist",
   "A scientist who studies insects"
  ],
  [
   "Camouflage",
   "Colors that help an animal hide"
  ],
  [
   "Swarm",
   "A large group of flying insects"
  ],
  [
   "Locust",
   "A kind of grasshopper that can swarm"
  ],
  [
   "Leafcutter ant",
   "Cuts leaves to grow fungus for food"
  ],
  [
   "Water strider",
   "An insect that walks on water"
  ],
  [
   "Mayfly",
   "An insect that lives only a short time as an adult"
  ]
 ]
}