Week 2: Gnawing Gnats
Gnats are teeny tiny flying bugs. They only live about 5 days.
A single gnat can lay 200 eggs and 1 week later when they hatch, 90% of them will be female.

Week 4: Frisky Fleas
Fleas never fly ~ neither do bed bugs! Fleas do not have a neck, waist or wings.
It's body is covered with armored plates. They drink blood for nourishment.

Week 5: Crawling Small
Ground beetles can fly but they prefer to crawl on the ground.
Longhorn beetle gets its name from it's antenae which is sometimes longer than its whole body. Centipedes can have 15 pairs of legs up to 170 pairs of legs.
Most grasshoppers are plain brown or green. The Band Wing Grasshopper has bright red or yellow back wings which show up when they fly. The Color Cloud Grasshopper has all color wings!

Week 6: Insectology
Insects have 2 main body parts: A- Head   B- Thorax   C- Abdomen
They have antanna and 3 sets of legs and often 1-2 sets of wings. Insects are related
to crabs and lobsters. Like these sea animals, their skeletons are on the outside of their bodies.

Insect Definitions!

Week 7: Ants Insect Inspect
When looking for food, ants leave a trail of scent on the ground for others in the colony to follow. The colony can be home to thousands of ants and often has many "rooms" set aside for certain tasks like taking care of the babies. There is a queen ant with a room to herself.

Week 8: Book Worm Germs
There are at least 1,000,000 species of worms all over the world. The most common worm is the earthworm. Earthworms in general have been around for 120 million years, evolving during the time of the dinosaurs. Earthworms are great for making healthy dirt!

Week 10: Crawly Ugly
A roach can live up to 10 days without its head!
Mosquitos drink plant juices & the females also bite & drink human & animal blood.
Ticks also survive on human and animal blood.Ticks do not jump or fly, although they may drop from their perch and fall onto a host. Some species actively stalk the host by foot.
A tick is in the arachnids family with spiders.

Week 12: Caterpillars Into Butterflies

A butterfly lays eggs that hatch into caterpillars. The caterpillars eat all the time and get bigger and bigger. They shed their skin several times before they stop eating and go into into a pupa or chrysalis.
In there, they turn into a butterfly. There are 15,000 - 20,000 species of butterflies worldwide.