BEETLES, BUGS and INSECTS
Insect     -     Vertebrate     -     Herbivore
Omnivore - (Glow Worms)
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DUST MITES
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RHINOCEROS BEETLE
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CICADA
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CRICKET
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GRASSHOPPER
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LOCUST
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GLOW WORM
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RAINBOW LADYBIRD
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DUNG BEETLE
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A FIREFLY
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DRAGONFLY
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A PRAYING MANTIS
There are over 80,000 species of bugs.
There are about 926,000 different insects.
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All Insects have 6 legs
There are more insects in the world than all the other animals combined
  • Bugs are an order of insects
  • Bugs are insects, arachnids, myriapods and crustaceans
  • Biologically speaking, bugs are insects that suck
  • Can live in cracks and crevices and they can withstand extreme conditions
  • Beetles account for a quarter of all known species of plants and animals
  • Female aphids give birth to other live female aphids that are already pregnant with yet more female aphids
  • A male rhinoceros beetle can lift 850 times its own body weight
  • 15,000 dust mites can live in one gram of dust
  • The male Cicada is the loudest insect in the world. Its sound can reach 120 decibels
  • 80% of all insects live in jungles

Cockroaches
  • Cockroaches appeared 120 million years before the dinosaurs
  • The oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old
  • If a cockroach touches a person, it immediately runs away and washes itself
  • Can hold its breath for 40 minutes
  • Shed their shells several times a year
  • Can live for several weeks with its head cut off - this is because its brain is inside its body.  It slowly starves to death
  • Deathwatch Beetles attract mates by repeatedly banging their heads on the floor
  • Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches
  • A cockroach can hold its breath for 40 minutes

Crickets and Grasshoppers
  • Grasshoppers have short antenna that point forward - and they hear through their sides
  • Grasshoppers' blood is white
  • Grasshoppers have hairs all over their body to detect air movement
  • Crickets are long and thin and sweep backwards - and have ears on their legs just below their knee joints
  • Crickets make their unique sound by rubbing their wings together
  • Crickets and grasshoppers are orthopterans, meaning 'straight wing'.  They each have a pair of long, narrow wings that stretch the length of their backs
  • Crickets can hear using their legs - sound-waves vibrate a thin membrane on their front legs
  • The higher the temperature, the faster a cricket chirps.  When the temperature is about 11 degrees Celsius, the cricket chirps about 60 times a minute
  • ​80% of a cricket is edible, compared to 40% of a cow

Dragonflies
  • Flap their wings in a figure-of-eight motion
  • Have 6 legs but cannot walk
  • The fastest inset is the Australian Dragonfly with a top speed of 35 miles per hour
  • Its eyes contains 30,000 lenses
  • Have the sharpest eyesight and the largest eyes among the insects
  • Can migrate 11,000 miles a year

Dung Beetles
  • If Dung Beetles disappeared from the plains of Africa, its human inhabitants would be up to their waists in excrement within a month
  • Dung Beetles navigate by using the Milky Way
  • The horn of a Dung Beetle is more than twice the length of its body
  • Dung beetles can bury 250 times their own weight i dung in a single evening

Fleas
  • Can jump up to 200 times their height - equivalent to jumping the Empire State Building in New York

Glow Worms
  • Are not worms, but insects
  • Live in undisturbed woodlands and caves
  • Eat snails, slugs and other insects
  • Main predators are spiders, birds and centipedes
  • Only the females glow and the males are attracted to their glow

Ladybirds
  • Are beetles - in America they are called ladybugs
  • Eat insects, flies, mites and aphids
  • The bright colours are to warn predators to stay away
  • The spots on their backs have nothing to with its age
  • They can have as many as 22 spots
  • They are often thought to predict the weather - if one fell off your hand, it would rain - if it flew away, it meant that the weather would be nice

Locusts
  • A swarm of locusts is an extremely destructive event as they eat all the plants they can find
  • Swarming is very uncommon
  • Locusts usually live alone but if crowded together they will swarm in search of new, less crowded places
  • The cloud of insects can block out the sun
  • Swarms of locusts move so fast because each locust is trying to eat the one in front and avoid being rate by the one behind

Praying Mantis
  • Has only one ear, which is located between its legs
  • Have binocular vision - both eyes work together to help it decipher visual cues
  • Is the only insect that can move its head 
  • Has an ear between its legs
  • Are closely related to cockroaches and termites
  • Female sometimes eats its mate
Cockroach
     Male  ......................................................  Cockroach
     Female   .................................................  Cockroach
     Young   ..................................................  Nymph

Dragonfly
     Male   .....................................................  King. Drake
     Female   .................................................  Queen
     Young  ...................................................  Nymph 

Fly 
     Male ......................................................  Fly
     Female   ................................................  Fly
     Young  ..................................................  Maggot

Gnat
     Male   ....................................................  Gnat
     Female  .................................................  Gnat
     Young   .................................................  Lava

Grasshopper
     Male   ....................................................  Grasshopper
     Female   ................................................  Grasshopper
     Young   .................................................  Nymph

Hornet
     Male   ....................................................  Drone
     Female  .................................................  Queen
     Young  ..................................................  Lava.  Pupa 

Spider
     Male   ....................................................  Spider
     Female   ................................................  Spider
     Young   .................................................  Spiderling

Termite
     Male   ....................................................  Bull
     Female   ................................................  Cow 
     Young   .................................................  Larva

SIMILES
  1. As angry as a hornet
  2. As chirpy as a cricket
  3. As crazy as a June bug
  4. As full as a tick
  5. As merry as a cricket
  6. As snug as a bug in a rug
  7. As tight as a tick
IDIOMS, METAPHORS AND EXPRESSIONS
General
  1. Hatches, matches and dispatches
  2. To beetle along
  3. To grub along
  4. To grub up

Bugs
  1. A big bug
  2. A fire bug
  3. A litter bug
  4. Bitten by the same bug
  5. Don't bug me
  6. Don't let the bed bugs bite
  7. Love bug
  8. Put a bug in my ear
  9. Snug as a bug in a rug
  10. To have a room bugged
  11. To bug off
  12. To bug out

Fleas
  1. A mere flea bite
  2. A flea in your ear

Flies
  1. A fly in the ointment
  2. A fly on the wall
  3. Catching flies
  4. Die like flies
  5. Dropping like flies
  6. Happy as a fly in a pie
  7. Like flies
  8. No flies on him / her
  9. The spider and the fly
  10. You can catch more flies with honey that with vinegar
  11. You must lose a fly to catch a trout
  12. Would not hurt a fly
Grasshopper
  1. Grasshopper mind
  2. Knee high to a grasshopper

Hornet
  1. Bring a hornets' nest about one's ears
  2. To stir up a hornet's nest

Lice
A flock of lice

Locusts
  1. To swarm like locusts

Moths
  1. Like a moth flies round a light
  2. Moth-eaten ideas

Nits
  1. Nit-picking
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CENTIPEDE
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BUSH COCKROACH
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HORNET
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COLLECTIVE NOUNS


Ants
  1.      An army of ants
  2.      A bike of ants
  3.      A colony of ants
  4.      A swarm of ants

Bacteria
  1.     A culture of bacteria (bug)   

Bluebottles
  1. A fluther of bluebottles          

Cockroaches
  1.     A crunch of cockroaches
  2.     An intrusion of cockroaches
  3.     A swarm of cockroaches

Crickets
    1.     A concerto of crickets
    2.     A crackle of crickets
    3.     An orchestra of crickets
      
Dragonflies
  1.    A cluster of dragonfly
  2.    A flight of dragonfly

Flies
  1.       A business of flies
  2.       A cloud of flies
  3.       A grist of flies
  4.       A hatch of flies
  5.       A pack of flies     
  6.       A swarm of flies      

Gnats
  1.      A cloud of gnats
  2.      A horde of gnats
  3.      A rabble of gnats
  4.      A swarm of gnats

Grasshoppers
  1.      A cloud of grasshoppers
  2.      A cluster of grasshoppers
  3.      A swarm of grasshoppers     

Hornets
  1.       A bike of hornets
  2.       A nest of hornets
  3.       A swarm of hornets      

Insects
  1.       A cloud of insects      
  2.       A flight of insects
  3.       A horde of insects
  4.       A plague of insects
  5.       A rabble of insects
  6.       A swarm of insects      

Lice
  1.       A colony of lice
  2.       A flock of lice
  3.       An infestation of lice

Ladybirds
  1.       A loveliness of ladybirds

Locusts
  1.       A cloud of locusts
  2.       A plague of locusts
  3.       A swarm of locusts      

Midges
  1.        A bite of midges
  2.        An infestation of mites
  3.        A mite of mites  
      
Mosquitoes
  1.      A cloud of mosquitoes
  2.      A scourge of mosquitoes
  3.      A swarm of mosquitoes      


Stag Beetles
  1. A fondness of stag beetles 

Termites
  1.       A brood of termites
  2.       A colony of termites
  3.       A nest of termites
  4.       A swarm of termites     

Wasps
  1.       A bike of wasps
  2.       A colony of wasps
  3.       A hive of wasps
  4.       A nest of wasps
  5.       A swarm of wasps
  6.       A willow of wasps
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LADYBIRD
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CITRON BUG
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DRAGONFLY
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HORNET
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LANTERN BUG
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LICE
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BLUE-EYED DRAGONFLY
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LADYBIRD
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PRAYING MANTICE
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COCKROACH
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MOSQUITO FEEDING
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A CICADA
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LADYBIRD