Insects And Bugs - Facts for Kids

The United Kingdom has only 46 different species of ladybugs!

After molting, a spider’s new exoskeleton takes several hours to harden completely!

The patterns on butterfly wings are made up of thousands of tiny scales, each about the size of a human hair split 100 times!

Some bees are solitary and live alone, while others live in colonies with thousands of family members!

In many fireflies, the glowing “lantern” fills the last two belly segments — but in some, like the females, it’s just in the second-to-last one!