Insects: Bees, Ants, and Butterflies
Learning about tiny animals with six legs
Insects: Bees, Ants, and Butterflies
Learning about tiny animals with six legs
Science - Grade K-1
- 1
An insect has 6 legs. Count the legs on the insect in the picture. Does it have 6 legs?
Touch and count each leg one at a time.
Yes, the insect has 6 legs. - 2
Circle the insect: bee, dog, fish.
The bee is the insect because it has 6 legs and antennae. - 3
Bees visit flowers. What do bees collect from flowers?
Bees use flowers to find food.
Bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers. - 4
Ants often walk in a line. Why do ants follow each other?
Ants can leave a smell path for other ants.
Ants follow scent trails to help them find food and get back home. - 5
A butterfly starts life as an egg. What hatches from the egg?
A caterpillar hatches from a butterfly egg. - 6
Look at the butterfly. What body part helps it fly?
The butterfly uses its wings to fly. - 7
Write one place where you might see an ant.
Think about where ants look for food.
You might see an ant on the ground, in the grass, near food, or near an anthill. - 8
True or false: Insects have 8 legs.
False. Insects have 6 legs. - 9
Match the insect to its home: bee, ant. Choices: hive, anthill.
A hive can hold many bees. An anthill is made by ants.
A bee lives in a hive, and an ant lives in an anthill. - 10
What do we call a young butterfly before it changes into a butterfly?
It looks like a small crawling animal with many tiny legs.
A young butterfly is called a caterpillar before it changes into a butterfly. - 11
Look at the pictures. Which insect has black and yellow stripes?
The bee has black and yellow stripes. - 12
Name one way a bee helps plants.
This helps many flowers make seeds and fruit.
A bee helps plants by moving pollen from flower to flower. - 13
Circle the body part that insects use to smell and touch: legs, antennae, wings.
Insects use antennae to smell and touch. - 14
Draw a butterfly and show two wings.
Butterfly wings are usually wide and can be colorful.
The drawing should show a butterfly with two wings, a body, and antennae. - 15
Bees, ants, and butterflies are all insects. Name one thing they have in common.
Think about the number of legs on insects.
They all have 6 legs because they are insects.