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

Silkworms are herbivores (plant eaters), which means they only eat plants – specifically (especially), they love mulberry leaves! A single silkworm can eat up to 20 times its weight in mulberry leaves every day!

A worker bee has about 170 special scent receptors on its antennae, which help it find flowers and communicate with other bees!

Butterflies have about 6,000 tiny lenses (ommatidia) in each eye, helping them see in almost every direction at once!

Male spiders often bring “gifts” of wrapped prey to females before mating!

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Butterflies existed before there were flowers on Earth!