Insects And Bugs - Facts for Kids

Common buckeye butterfly with colorful eyespot wing pattern perched on yellow flower.

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Random Facts About Insects And Bugs For Kids

Special Adaptations

Some butterflies can change their wing colors slightly based on the temperature!

️Diet & Feeding

Leafcutter ants don’t actually eat leaves — they use them to grow fungus gardens for food!

The earliest known firefly fossils are about 100 million years old, meaning these insects lived alongside dinosaurs!

Some people are working to develop more friendly methods of silk production that don’t harm the silkworms!

It takes about 25 to 30 days for a silkworm to grow from a tiny caterpillar to being ready to spin its cocoon (silk house)!