Insects 2 Recognition of British Insects pictures from ants to flies

Nature Quiz - Insects and Spiders - Insects 2 (Questions)

Insects have exoskeletons which means their skeletons are on the outside of their bodies. Not only does this protect the insect, it also keeps water inside their bodies so they don't dry out. Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight. This is the equivalent of an adult human lifting two cars full of people!

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What is the name of this insect?

[ ]	European honey bee
[ ]	Red ant
[ ]	Ladybird
[ ]	Forest bug

What is the name of this insect?

[ ]	Common Hawker
[ ]	European wool carder bee
[ ]	Common wasp
[ ]	European wasp

What is the name of this insect?

[ ]	Beautiful Demoiselle
[ ]	German cockroach
[ ]	Golden-ringed Dragonfly
[ ]	Field Cricket

What is the name of this insect?

[ ]	Lesser water boatman
[ ]	March brown mayfly
[ ]	Hoverfly
[ ]	Ivy bee

What is the name of this insect?

[ ]	Garden bumblebee
[ ]	Stick insect
[ ]	European honey bee
[ ]	Lesser earwig

What is the name of this insect?

[ ]	Speckled bush-cricket
[ ]	Stag beetle
[ ]	Golden ground beetle
[ ]	Rhinoceros beetle

What is the name of this insect?

[ ]	Emerald Damselfly
[ ]	Cepero's groundhopper
[ ]	Yellow meadow ant
[ ]	Meadow Grasshopper

What is the name of this insect?

[ ]	Black ant
[ ]	Erratic ant
[ ]	Red ant
[ ]	Common wasp

Insect repellents generally don't work on this alien-looking insect - the pale giant horse-fly. However, the fly is not too keen on what?

[ ]	Garlic
[ ]	Smoke
[ ]	Wind chimes
[ ]	Coffee

10.

What is the name of this insect?

[ ]	Lesser earwig
[ ]	German cockroach
[ ]	Common earwig
[ ]	Erratic ant

Nature Quiz - Insects and Spiders - Insects 2 (Answers)

What is the name of this insect?

[ ]	European honey bee
[ ]	Red ant
[x]	Ladybird
[ ]	Forest bug

What is the name of this insect?

[ ]	Common Hawker
[ ]	European wool carder bee
[ ]	Common wasp
[x]	European wasp

What is the name of this insect?

[x]	Beautiful Demoiselle
[ ]	German cockroach
[ ]	Golden-ringed Dragonfly
[ ]	Field Cricket

What is the name of this insect?

[ ]	Lesser water boatman
[ ]	March brown mayfly
[x]	Hoverfly
[ ]	Ivy bee

What is the name of this insect?

[x]	Garden bumblebee
[ ]	Stick insect
[ ]	European honey bee
[ ]	Lesser earwig

What is the name of this insect?

[ ]	Speckled bush-cricket
[x]	Stag beetle
[ ]	Golden ground beetle
[ ]	Rhinoceros beetle

What is the name of this insect?

[ ]	Emerald Damselfly
[ ]	Cepero's groundhopper
[ ]	Yellow meadow ant
[x]	Meadow Grasshopper

What is the name of this insect?

[x]	Black ant
[ ]	Erratic ant
[ ]	Red ant
[ ]	Common wasp

Insect repellents generally don't work on this alien-looking insect - the pale giant horse-fly. However, the fly is not too keen on what?

[ ]	Garlic
[x]	Smoke
[ ]	Wind chimes
[ ]	Coffee

10.

What is the name of this insect?

[ ]	Lesser earwig
[ ]	German cockroach
[x]	Common earwig
[ ]	Erratic ant