Last week we studied mini-beasts. What is an insect?
Insects can be distingiushed from other small animals by their six legs and three body parts (head, thorax and abdomen) antennae, compound eye and wings (usually, but not always).
Insect abilities?
Insects have some amazing abilities. Grasshoppers can jump 40 times the length of its body, ants can carry objects that weight 100 times the weight of thier body.
Where do insects live?
Insects live everywhere, forests, deserts, jungles, grasslands, swamps, ponds and streams-even inside the bodies of other animals.
How many species of insects are there?
By current estimates there may be as many as 10 million different species. The most common group of insects are the beetles, butterflies and moths,ants, wasps and bees, flies, grasshoppers and crickets.
By Eric Hyland!
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