What insect am I?

Question 1

Name this butterfly or moth.

Answer 1

Monarch Butterfly

Question 2

Name this butterfly or moth.

Answer 2

Black swallowtail butterfly

Question 3

Name this butterfly or moth.

Answer 3

Cabbage butterfly

Question 4

Name this butterfly or moth.

Answer 4

fall webworm moth

Question 5

Name this butterfly or moth.

Answer 5

painted lady butterfly

Question 6

Name this butterfly or moth.

Answer 6

Isabella moth

Question 7

I have a round, red or yellow body with black spots and can be found on weeds or garden plants where I feed on insect pests such as aphids.

Answer 7

ladybug

Question 8

I look like a stick and can sometimes be seen at night feeding on leaves and shrubs.

Answer 8

walking stick

Question 9

My ears are located on my front legs, females have a long, narrow egg-laying ovipositor, and only the males make a sound.

Answer 9

cricket

Question 10

I am a social insect who lives in a hive made up of many wax cells, my legs have “ears” and baskets for carrying pollen, I communicate by dancing, and I have a stinger at the end of my abdomen for protection.

Answer 10

honeybee

Question 11

I have a very tiny, soft body and can often be seen in large swarms.

Answer 11

gnat

Question 12

I am a very small insect, just one-hundredth of an inch!

Answer 12

fairy fly

Question 13

I am one of the largest insects, up to four inches long!

Answer 13

Goliath beetle

Question 14

I live in paper nests made from chewed-up wood and can frequently be seen on eaves of buildings and porches.

Answer 14

hornet

Question 15

I have a thick, tough exoskeleton, am active during the day, I have hearing organs on my abdomen, and I have wings shaped like a roof.

Answer 15

grasshopper

Question 16

I have especially large eyes to hunt insects, and I do not sting.

Answer 16

dragonfly

Question 17

I carry diseases, but only females bite. I can be controlled by filling in ponds and pools or by using insecticide.

Answer 17

mosquito

Question 18

I have many different types, most of which are pests, and I have a downward curved snout with antennae attached near the middle.

Answer 18

weevil

Question 19

I release a foul odour and eat the remains of dead animals.

Answer 19

carrion beetle

Question 20

My orange colour warns predators that I’m a milkweed feeder and thus poisonous.

Answer 20

milkweed bug

Question 21

I look very much like a yellow jacket, and am also known as a flower fly or drone fly.

Answer 21

syrphid fly

Question 22

I have patches of colour to look like large eyes on my head. I feed on leaves of wild cherry and emil a musky odour for protection.

Answer 22

tiger swallowtail caterpillar

Question 23

I flash a light to attract a mate, and I’m really a beetle, not a fly.

Answer 23

firefly

Question 24

I look very much like the monarch butterfly, and my larvae feed on poplar, willow, oak, and apple leaves.

Answer 24

viceroy butterfly

Question 25

I make a unique buzzing sound with organs on my thorax, and I remain a nymph for 4-20 years.

Answer 25

cicada

Question 26

Also known as the sexton beetle, I bury a small dead animal for my larvae to feed on.

Answer 26

burying beetle

Question 27

I make a home right in the water where I hatch.

Answer 27

caddis worm

Question 28

I have “ears” on the upper part of my front legs and am green with leaflike wing covers. The male of my species rubs his outer wings together to make “katydid” call.

Answer 28

katydid

Question 29

We’re parasites that suck our hosts’ blood.

Answer 29

lice

Question 30

I make a nest of mud in attics or roofs of buildings, and I paralyse spiders and put them in cells to feed my larvae when they hatch.

Answer 30

mud dauber wasp (spider wasp)

Question 31

I use my hind legs for oars.

Answer 31

backswimmer

Question 32

I use my front legs to burrow, and I eat young roots, killing seedlings.

Answer 32

mole cricket

Question 33

I can jump 100 times my own height, but I have no wings.

Answer 33

flea

Question 34

I have a large, round eyespot on each wing and have large, feathery antennae.

Answer 34

polyphemus moth

Question 35

I release a foul odour when handled and prey on aphids, larvae, and insect eggs.

Answer 35

lacewing

Question 36

I release a foul odour.

Answer 36

stinkbug

Question 37

I have pincerlike structures on my abdomen.

Answer 37

earwig

Question 38

I have spiked legs for self-defense.

Answer 38

Jerusalem cricket

Question 39

I am a social insect who feeds on wood.

Answer 39

termite

Question 40

I use a chemical cannon to discharge acid “bombs.”

Answer 40

bombardier beetle

Question 41

I have a bearlike mouth and can inflict a painful bite, and the female glues her eggs onto the male’s back.

Answer 41

giant waterbug

Question 42

I am a common indoor insect with no wings.

Answer 42

silverfish

Question 43

I hold my forelegs in a prayerlike position, and the female lays her eggs in a foam that hardens and often eats her mate.

Answer 43

praying mantis

Question 44

My larvae are called maggots and feed on decaying materials. I taste with my feet and take about two weeks to go through complete metamorphosis.

Answer 44

housefly

Question 45

I only feed on the bitter milkweed plant.

Answer 45

large milkweed bug

Question 46

Like the hornet, I live in paper nests made from chewed-up wood and am frequently seen on eaves of buildings and porches.

Answer 46

yellowjacket