Insects questions
44 fact-checked questions — tap any to predict the answer, then read why.
- Why can artificial night light trick Aedes albopictus eggs into skipping winter dormancy?
- Why can night light be bad for mosquitoes yet still bad for people nearby?
- A Culex mosquito entering winter diapause stops seeking blood. What replaces it?
- Streetlights can keep Culex mosquitoes biting into fall. What signal gets scrambled?
- Why can stick insects regrow legs?
- Why are some ants' jaws so fast?
- Why do periodical cicadas emerge together?
- Why do silkworms make silk cocoons?
- Why do earwigs have pincers?
- Why do monarch butterflies migrate?
- Why do bombardier beetles spray?
- Why don't luna moths have mouths?
- Why do spittlebugs make foam?
- Why do leaf cutter ants cut leaves?
- Why do dung beetles roll dung balls?
- Why do aphids produce honeydew?
- Why do water striders walk on water?
- Why can fleas jump so high?
- Why do walking sticks look like twigs?
- Why do mosquitoes buzz near ears?
- Why do honeybees do waggle dances?
- Why do stink bugs smell so bad?
- Why do butterflies taste with feet?
- Why do cockroaches run from light?
- Why do wasps build paper nests?
- Why do crickets chirp at night?
- Why do honeybees die after stinging?
- Why do dragonflies hover in place?
- Why do ants carry heavy things?
- Why do praying mantis stay so still?
- Why do fireflies glow in the dark?
- Why do termites eat wood?
- Why do some insects play dead?
- Why do caterpillars become butterflies?
- Why do beetles have hard shells?
- Why do grasshoppers jump so high?
- Why do dragonflies have big eyes?
- Why do moths fly toward lights?
- Why do flies rub their legs together?
- Why do ladybugs have spots?
- Why do spiders spin webs?
- Why do cicadas make loud sounds?
- Why do butterflies have colorful wings?
- Why do ants walk in lines?