Insects And Bugs - Facts for Kids

Some spiders take care of their babies for several weeks after they hatch, feeding them pre-digested food!

Dung beetle larvae go through three growth stages called instars before becoming pupae!

Yellow jackets are actually wasps, not bees, and belong to the family Vespidae, which includes other social wasps like hornets!

A water strider is super light — many weigh only a few hundredths of a gram (about as heavy as a small grain of sand!), which helps them skate on water without sinking.

A single bee colony can pollinate up to 300 million flowers each day!