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Insect Trivia Quiz

Test your knowledge about insects, spiders, and their fascinating behaviors with this trivia quiz.

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Questions

Question 1 True/False

All spider webs are the same.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 2 True/False

Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 3 True/False

The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 4 True/False

The honeybee kills more people world-wide than all the poisonous snakes combined.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 5 True/False

The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 6 True/False

The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent than that of a rattlesnake.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 7 True/False

The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 8 True/False

There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 9 True/False

A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 10 True/False

Amazon ants (red ants found in the western U.S.) steal the larvae of other ants to keep as slaves. The slave ants build homes for and feed the Amazon ants, who cannot do anything but fight. They depend completely on their slaves for survival.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 11 True/False

An adult bedbug can survive up to one year without feeding.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 12 True/False

There are more than 900,000 known species of insects in the world.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 13 True/False

When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 14 True/False

Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 15 True/False

The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 16 True/False

There are more than 2,500 varieties of mosquito.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 17 True/False

When ants find food, they can't locate back to their home. They start a new colony nearer to food.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 18 True/False

The buzz that you hear when a bee approaches is the sound being produced by them to let other beings know of their arrival.

  1. True
  2. False
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