8 insect trivia questions, from easy to hard. Tap a question to see the answer. They're real questions from Rubicon, where you type the answer yourself and an AI judge reads what you meant.
This set covers Bees, Wasps & Ants, Beetles & Their Diversity, Butterflies & Moths, Disease-Carrying Insects and Spiders & Arachnids.
Bees align their dance angle relative to gravity to represent the sun's position.
Beetles diversified dramatically by feeding on and pollinating newly emerging flowering plants.
Holding wings closed hides bright colors and reveals drab undersides that blend into surroundings to avoid predators.
It shifted prevention to controlling mosquito populations, moving away from old beliefs about bad air.
It senses the vibrations transmitted through silk trip lines radiating outside the entrance of its burrow.
The parasite multiplies inside the fly's gut and is regurgitated into the wound while feeding on blood.
Ants imprint on the ambient nest odors present right when they emerge from their cocoons, accepting those captors as their family.
Beetles accumulate high concentrations of glycerol in their hemolymph to lower the freezing point and protect cellular structures.
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