Activity Sheet 1

What is an insect?

Answers

Is an insect: Damselfly, Stag Beetle, Mayfly, Blue Bottle Fly, Silverfish, Stonefly, Grasshopper, Lacewing, Earwing, Shieldbug, Painted Lady Butterfly, Bumblebee

Isn’t an insect: Common Frog, Great-Crested Newt

Insect orders:

Odonata - Damselflies and Dragonflies

Hymenoptera - Bees, wasps and ants

Coleoptera - Beetles

Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths

Orthoptera - Grasshoppers and Crickets

Dermaptera - Earwigs

Emphermeroptera - Mayflies

Plecoptera - Stoneflies

Zygentoma - Silverfish and firebats

Diptera - True flies

Hemiptera - True bugs