Insect facts for kids. Interesting facts about insects. Small but invulnerable
We offer you 12 interesting facts about insects that will be of interest to children:
1. All insects have common features: six legs, antennae and wings. Their body is, as it were, divided into parts by thin lines - notches. Hence the name "insects".
2.Ladybug brings great benefit: it destroys many plant pests - aphids. Ladybug is cunning - she can pretend to be dead if you put her on the palm of your hand. The ladybug at the first danger releases a yellow liquid - even if the bird once grabs ladybug, then he will understand that this bug is tasteless, remember its color and will not touch it again.
3. Why is it said that the grasshopper plays the violin? The fact is that on his wings there are special notches. He rubs them quickly, quickly, one against the other, as if he were running a violin with a bow, and a chirring is heard. Let the kid properly examine the grasshopper (what color is it, does it have antennae and eyes), and at the same time think about why it needs such long hind legs. Of course, to jump!
4. Bees, bumblebees and wasps are pollinating insects. Indeed, without them, flowers would never have become fruits, which means that we would not be able to enjoy delicious apples.
5. Often babies are afraid of stinging insects. But the one who waves his arms and screams in fear, the bee will bite rather than a calm person. Because the insects will not attack first.
6. Ant is the strongest on earth! He can carry loads 10 times heavier than his own weight. If adults do not forget to take a magnifying glass to the dacha, with its help the kids will learn a lot of interesting things about the life of these ubiquitous ants. To do this, it is enough to find a small anthill with holes-doors in the ground and from time to time observe it: what do the ants do, how they treat each other, what prey they drag, how far do they run away from their home?
7. The main pest for country garden - Colorado beetle, regularly "attacking" the potatoes. The child needs to be told about the harm this insect causes, and asked to help in the fight against it. Usually, children do a good job of this task, collecting bugs in a jar of water, while training their fingers.
8. Another serious enemy of the garden is the bear. This large insect, which lives in the ground and feeds on potato tubers, carrots and young parts of plants. You can find it while digging potatoes. Medvedka will surely make a strong impression on children thanks to big size and intimidating look. And of particular interest to young researchers are her paws. They are well adapted for digging the earth. The bear doesn't bite. She can fly and even chirp like a cricket.
9. At night it is interesting to follow the fireflies. The firefly flies in zigzags. Be sure to show with your hand in the air how the firefly flies. In the dark, the firefly glows with a yellowish light.
10. Bees collect nectar from which honey is made. The bee collects nectar with its proboscis. Bees have a whole set of tools on their legs. Here you will see brushes for collecting pollen, and baskets for transferring pollen, and brushes with which bees clean their eyes from pollen that has fallen into them. Bees, flying, buzz: "zh-zh-zh-zh-zh-zh-zh". Play bees with your child: repeating this sound is good for speech development.
11. In the summer in the village or in the country, you will probably see a dragonfly. These beautiful insects hunt in the air: in flight they keep at the ready folded net hairy legs. Their sleepy victims fall into these "nets". Interestingly, in just an hour, a dragonfly can eat as many as 40 house flies. If you want to mold a plasticine dragonfly, it is useful to know that her body consists of three parts: head, chest and abdomen.
12. A bumblebee flies very fast, at the speed of an adult cyclist (18 km/h). It has a soft coat that helps keep it warm in the early morning. Bumblebees live in their "bumblebee towns" (about 200 individuals). They are not allowed to sleep in the morning. Before dawn, a “trumpeter” appears in bumblebee nests, which buzzes, raising fellow tribesmen to work collecting pollen. To “develop” the topic about bumblebees, you can put the audio recording “Flight of the Bumblebee” from N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov "The Tsar's Bride". So bumblebees will help your child to join classical music.
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Hocus Pocus: Caterpillars turn into butterflies!
Which of us in childhood was not surprised at the transformation of a nasty caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly? This transformation for the baby is akin to magic. Therefore, even if the parents of the crumbs have never seen this happen before, it's time to do it now with the baby. First you need to catch a few caterpillars. It's better if they are different.
Firstly, not all caterpillars will be able to breed a butterfly, and secondly, it will be interesting to compare the behavior of different insects.
Cabbage butterfly caterpillars can be found in the garden, on cabbage or radish. They are blue-green, with three yellow longitudinal stripes and black dots. But you can't take them with your bare hands. The caustic secretions of these caterpillars irritate the skin. The child must be aware of this. Matte-green caterpillars of the turnip butterfly can also be found here. And if you are very lucky, then on carrots, parsley or dill you can find a swallowtail caterpillar. It is large, clearly visible, green with black stripes and red dots on them. Urticaria caterpillars live where they are supposed to be by name - on nettles. In the same place or on raspberries, you can also find caterpillars of the peacock butterfly. On fruit trees caterpillars of various silkworms or apple moth gnaw on the leaves.
Future butterflies need to be collected and planted in a jar or plastic bottle with a cut top. Plants or twigs on which the caterpillars were sitting should also be placed there, and the vessel should be closed with gauze. Green food should be changed every 2 days. Now you can watch your pets with your baby: how they chew leaves, how they crawl, grow. After a while, the caterpillars will pupate - turn into pupae. In this state, it is better not to disturb them. It remains to be patient and wait. Until that wonderful moment when a beautiful butterfly emerges from a motionless chrysalis.
2. Scientists believe that from 2 to 8 million species live on Earth.
3. Every year, scientists discover more than 7,000 new species of insects.
4. Representatives of many species of rare insects fell into the hands of researchers only once.
5. Insects appeared about 400 million years ago and survived not only dinosaurs, but also several global cataclysms.
Ant
6. In natural environment The life span of an ant is approximately one year. But in the laboratory, these insects live even 4, or even all 7 years, males and 20 years - females.
7. Insects do not have a skeleton - this role is played by an external exoskeleton made of chitin.
8. In Thailand, insects are actively used in cooking.
9. The most poisonous spider, according to the compilers of the popular collection of the Guinness Book of Records, is the “Brazilian wanderer”. The insect got its nickname for excessive activity.
10. On the border of Thailand and Malaysia, a grasshopper was caught, the length of which was 25.5 centimeters. This insect made long jumps of 4.6 meters.
brownie cricket
11. Crickets are very unusual insects. Their ears are located on their front legs.
12. Poison of bees chemical composition is an acid and oc is an alkali.
13. One of the oldest insects on the planet are ants. Their age is 100-130 million years. It is also interesting that, having survived to this day, they have practically not changed in appearance. The reason for this adaptability, according to scientists, lies in the social lifestyle.
14. interesting creature lives in the African Namib desert - a rolling spider called Carparachneaureoflava. To protect against its main enemies - road wasps - it digs very deep pits, along the slopes of which it rolls like a wheel from attacks. The speed in this case is 1 meter per second, which equals 44 revolutions.
15. The strongest insect is an ant, it is able to lift a weight that exceeds its own many dozens of times.
common mosquito
16. One of the reasons for the prevalence of mosquitoes in environment- Greater viability of their eggs. Unfavorable conditions for the offspring of insects do not care. Mosquito eggs can lie in cold, dry soil for up to 3 years, and then come to life with the onset of heat, when the ground becomes wet.
17. Mosquitoes feed on plant sap and nectar. But some of them suck blood not out of hunger, but to obtain the proteins necessary for bearing offspring, so only females are bloodsuckers, and males are absolute vegetarians.
18. In one jump, a flea is able to jump 33 centimeters. If we translate such an achievement on us, a person would jump as much as 213 meters.
19. An amazing example of vitality is a cockroach. With his head torn off, he can live for weeks. To respond to touch and move, the insect does not need a brain. Instead, the basic reflex functions are performed by accumulations of the nervous tissue of the body.
20. Slightly fall short of the title of "the smallest butterflies" radiculosis, living in the Canary Islands.
desert locust
21. The most voracious insect in the world is the desert locust. This pest, which lives in Asia and Africa, eats as much daily as it weighs.
22. There are butterflies that in one day manage to be born, leave offspring and die. Such butterflies do not need to look for food, since their digestive organs are filled with air.
Weevil
23. Clothes in a wardrobe are eaten not by an adult moth, but by its larvae.
24. Some of the ants not only hunt, but also livestock. Ants-cattle breeders "graze" mealybugs, leafhoppers, aphids, contain homoptera in "stalls". The reward for the labors is the sweet excrement of "cattle", going to food.
25. A swarm of locusts can include up to fifty billion individuals.
Maybug in flight
26. Scientists still cannot understand how beetles fly, because according to all the laws of physics and aerodynamics, they should not fly.
27. The wingspan of only 2 millimeters has the smallest butterfly - acetozea. You can see these nocturnal babies in the UK.
28. Most big spider on Earth, the goliath tarantula (theraphosa blond) is considered. Insect lives in the tropics Latin America, eats medium-sized snakes, mice, frogs and lizards. The size of the body of a spider with straightened legs is 25–28 centimeters.
29. Fleas can jump a distance equal to 120-130 lengths of their own body.
30. The main occupation of the Amazon ants is the war, during which they capture the pupae of strangers. In the future, the captives are used as slaves. The warlike ants themselves are not able to feed themselves, since they cannot organize life.
Caterpillar - butterfly larva - lonomy
31. Not only spiders are poisonous, but also caterpillars. The most dangerous butterfly larva is the lonomia, which lives in the American rainforests. She has a calm disposition and nondescript color, but the spikes on the body of the caterpillar contain the strongest toxin that acts as an anticoagulant.
32. The victim of a female mosquito is determined by smell: they like fat people, athletes, pregnant women, owners of the second and third blood groups.
Water beetle
33. Despite the fact that the female mosquito is forced to use the blood, she chooses the “dish” meticulously. Females bite women more often than men, and blondes are preferred to brunettes.
34. Despite their size, flies can fly at speeds of up to 22.4 kilometers per hour. These insects masterfully dodge a deadly fly swatter because they plan well.
35. Butterflies taste with the help of their paws - this is where they have taste buds.
Dragonfly
36. Most fast insect on the planet - a dragonfly, it can reach speeds of almost 60 kilometers per hour.
37. Every year, about a quarter of the world's crop is eaten by insects.
38. Mosquitoes are really capable of drinking all the blood from a person. Another thing is that there should be a lot of mosquitoes, as many as usually do not happen at once in one place.
39. Some species of dragonflies live only about a day.
40. Each eye of a dragonfly consists of about twenty thousand small lenses.
common praying mantis
41. The only insect that can turn its head to the side is the praying mantis.
42. An interesting way of hunting is used by gladiator spiders that live in Australia. They weave a web in the shape of a square, holding its ends between their front paws. When the prey is caught in the web, the spider covers it with a web in one quick movement.
Ladybug
43. Every year from bee stings more people die than from snakes.
44. Ants of the genus Dorylus are used by the indigenous people of Africa for cuts and for surgical purposes. They heal wounds with their sting.
45. A swarm of 50 million desert locusts destroys food in a day, which would be enough for 1,000 people for six months.
honey bee
46. Buzz honey bee is created due to the very fast flapping of the wings - about 11,400 flaps in one minute.
47. In one day, an entire swarm of 50 billion locusts eats 4 times more food than the inhabitants of the New York metropolis all together.
48. Lantern or alligator beetle lives in Central America. It got its name from unusual shape heads.
49. The body temperature of crickets can be measured in degrees Celsius by their chirping. To do this, count the number of sounds they make per minute, divide this number by two, then add nine and divide by two again.
50. Spiders are known to feed on other insects. And the weight of their victims in one year is more than the weight of all the people who live on the planet.
The most interesting facts about insects
The living being with the largest brain in relation to the body is an ant.
The weight of insects that all spiders on Earth eat in a year is more than the total weight of all people living on the planet.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the smell of people who have recently eaten bananas.
The dragonfly lives 24 hours.
Termites grind wood twice as fast for hard rock.
Scorpions can eat nothing for almost two years, and ticks up to 10 years.
Butterflies taste food with their hind legs. And the color of their wings is created by tiny overlapping scales that reflect light.
Ants never sleep. There are almost as many ant species (8800) as there are bird species (9000) in the world.
Dragonflies are the fastest flying insects. The speed of their movement reaches 57 km / h.
The aphid develops into an adult insect from an egg in 6 days and lives for another 4-5 days.
grasshopper blood white color, blue lobster.
Insects are the first living creatures that appeared on Earth, more than 400 million years ago. Since then, they have survived five massive cataclysms and have proven to be more tenacious than tyrannosaurs.
Every year, more people die from bee stings than from snake bites.
Insects annually devour 25 - 30% of the world crop.
There are more than 20,000 tiny lenses in the eye of a dragonfly, which form, like pieces of a mosaic, a multifaceted (faceted) surface.
As analysis of the stomach contents of female mosquitoes caught around settlements, 80% of these insects feed on the blood of domestic animals.
One bee family harvests up to 150 kg of honey during the summer.
The bee has two stomachs - one for honey, the other for food.
Spider-spiders eat their web every morning, and then build it again.
In a lifetime, a bee produces 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey.
A female cockroach can lay more than two million eggs in a year. In addition, a cockroach can live for nine days without a head.
There are about 35 thousand known species spiders and new ones are opening all the time.
Insects are a food rich in protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. In Thailand, they are considered a delicacy, where fried crickets and locusts are popular.
The largest moth in the world - Attacus Altas. With a wingspan of 30 cm, it is often mistaken for a bird.
In Rus', grasshoppers were called dragonflies.
Every day, the bees of our planet fertilize 3 trillion flowers and produce 3,000 tons of honey.
Oksana Petrova
Interesting Facts about insects for kids
12 interesting facts about insects, to be interesting for children:
1. Everyone insects have common features: six legs, antennae and wings. Their body is as if divided into parts by thin lines - notches. Hence the name - « insects» .
2. Ladybug brings big benefit: it destroys many plant pests - aphids. Ladybug is cunning - she can pretend to be dead if you put her on the palm of your hand. At the first danger, a ladybug emits a yellow liquid - even if the bird once grabs a ladybug, it will understand that this bug is tasteless, remember its color and will not touch it again.
3. Why is it said that the grasshopper plays the violin? The fact is that on his wings there are special notches. He rubs them quickly, quickly, one against the other, as if he were running a violin with a bow, and a chirring is heard. Let the kid take a good look at the grasshopper (what color is it, does it have antennae and eyes, and at the same time think about why it needs such long hind legs. Of course, to jump!
4. Bees, bumblebees and wasps - insect pollinators. Indeed, without them, flowers would never have become fruits, which means that we would not be able to enjoy delicious apples.
5. Babies are often afraid of stingers. insects. But the one who waves his arms and screams in fear, the bee will bite rather than a calm person. Because the insects will not attack first.
6. Ant is the strongest on earth! He can carry loads 10 times heavier than his own weight. If adults do not forget to take a magnifying glass to the dacha, with its help the kids will learn a lot interesting about the life of these ubiquitous ants. To do this, it is enough to find a small anthill with holes-doors in the ground and from time to time observe him: what do ants do, how do they treat each other, what kind of prey do they drag, how far do they run away from their home?
7. The main pest for the country garden is the Colorado potato beetle, regularly "attack" for potatoes. The child needs to be told about the harm it causes. insect, and ask for help in the fight against him. Usually, children do a good job of this task, collecting bugs in a jar of water, while training their fingers.
8. Another serious enemy of the garden is the bear. It's big insect, which lives in the ground and feeds on potato tubers, carrots and young parts of plants. You can find it while digging potatoes. Medvedka will surely make a strong impression on children due to its large size and intimidating appearance. A special interest for little explorers are her paws. They are well adapted for digging the earth. The bear doesn't bite. She can fly and even chirp like a cricket.
9. At night Interesting watch out for the fireflies. The firefly flies in zigzags. Be sure to show with your hand in the air how the firefly flies. In the dark, the firefly glows with a yellowish light.
10. Bees collect nectar from which they make honey. The bee collects nectar with its proboscis. Bees have a whole set of tools on their legs. Here you will see brushes for collecting pollen, and baskets for transferring pollen, and brushes with which bees clean their eyes from pollen that has fallen into them. bees flying, buzz: "w-w-w-w-w-w-w". Play with your child bees: repeating this sound is good for speech development.
11. In the summer in the village or in the country, you will surely see a dragonfly. These are beautiful insects hunt in the air: in flight, they keep strong hairy legs folded in a net at the ready. In these "nets" and their sleepy victims fall. Interesting that in just an hour a dragonfly can eat as many as 40 houseflies. If you want to mold a plasticine dragonfly, it is useful to know that her body consists of three parts: head, thorax and abdomen.
12. The bumblebee flies very fast, at the speed of an adult cyclist. (18 km/h). It has a soft coat that helps keep it warm in the early morning. Bumblebees live in their "bumblebee towns" (approximately 200 individuals). They are not allowed to sleep in the morning. In bumblebee nests before dawn appears "trumpeter", which buzzes, raising fellow tribesmen to work collecting pollen. To "develop" topic about bumblebees, you can put an audio recording for the child "Flight of the Bumblebee" from the opera by N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov "Royal Bride". So bumblebees will help your child to join classical music.
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We are surrounded invisible world insects. Little is known about butterflies, flies, and dragonflies. Therefore, we have collected for you the most interesting facts about insects that will undoubtedly surprise you very much!
- 1. Attacus Atlas - this is the name of the largest night butterfly. It is so large that people confuse it with a bird. The wingspan of Attacus Atlas reaches thirty centimeters!
- 2. Flies are small living planes. Despite their size, the flight speed of flies can reach 22.4 kilometers per hour (for a horsefly), 6.4 kilometers per hour (for house fly) and 11 kilometers per hour (for a carrion fly). These insects masterfully dodge a deadly fly swatter because they plan well.
- 3. In one jump, a flea is able to jump 33 centimeters. If we translate such an achievement on us, a person would jump as much as 213 meters.
- 4. One swarm of desert locust can consist of 50 billion individuals. It is also interesting that each insect eats as much food per day as it weighs itself. Therefore, in one day, the entire swarm of locusts eats 4 times more food than the inhabitants of the New York metropolis all together.
- 5. The buzz of a honey bee is created due to the very fast flapping of its wings - about 11,400 strokes in one minute.
- 6. On the border of Thailand and Malaysia, a grasshopper was caught, the length of which was twenty-five and a half centimeters. This insect made long jumps of 4.6 meters.
- 7. Interesting facts about insects also apply to the substances they produce. Did you know that bee venom is chemically acidic and wasp venom is alkaline?
- 8. If home cockroach cut off his head, he'll live a couple more weeks.
- 9. Every year more people die from bee stings than from snakes.
- 10. Spiders are known to feed on other insects. And the weight of their victims in one year is more than the weight of all the people who live on the planet.
- 11. Dragonflies fly faster than all insects. Their flight speed is 57 kilometers per hour.
- 12. In the natural environment, the life span of an ant is approximately one year. But in the laboratory, these insects live even 4, or even all 7 years, males and 20 years - females.
- 13. Crickets are very unusual insects. Their ears are located on their front legs. And the body temperature of crickets can be measured in degrees Celsius by their chirping. To do this, count the number of sounds they make per minute, divide this number by two, then add nine and divide by two again.
- 14. An interesting creature lives in the African Namib desert - a rolling spider called Carparachneaureoflava. To protect against its main enemies - road wasps - it digs very deep pits, along the slopes of which it rolls like a wheel from attacks. The speed in this case is one meter per second, which is equal to 44 revolutions.
- 15. Ants of the genus Dorylus are used by the indigenous people of Africa for cuts and for surgical purposes. They heal wounds with their sting.
- 16. Lantern or alligator beetle lives in Central America. It got its name because of the unusual shape of the head.
- 17. An interesting way of hunting is used by gladiator spiders that live in Australia. They weave a web in the shape of a square, holding its ends between their front paws. When the victim is caught in the web, the spider covers it with a web in one quick movement.
Interesting video about insects. An insect from another planet. Mantis.
