Insects And Bugs - Facts for Kids

Exploding ants in Southeast Asia can rupture their own bodies to release sticky, toxic fluid to defend their colony!

Some baby spiders eat their mother’s unfertilized eggs as their first meal!

Wild silkworms originally (first) lived in temperate (not too hot, not too cold) broadleaf (wide-leafed) forests where mulberry trees grow!

A ladybug’s wings are about 2 times longer than its body when fully extended!

Some ladybugs can detect approaching predators by feeling air movements with their antennae!