All About Beetles
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- 4. The middle segment of body where the legs and wings attach.
- 5. These beetles can lift 850 times their body weight.
- 7. What is the segmented tail area of a beetle that contains most of its organs?
- 10. What is the beetle form that emerges after metamorphosis?
- 11. There are about 5,000 different species of this beetle, but are known in NC for their red wings with black spots.
- 13. This type of firefly is only one of a few species in North America known to have their lights flash at the same time.
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- 1. What is the process called when the body of a beetle takes on a new form?
- 2. What is the term for the jaws on a beetle?
- 3. What is the partly nocturnal and luminescent beetle, that is also known as a lightning bug?
- 4. These beetles are fastest animal on the planet at 141 body lengths/sec.
- 6. This is where the brain, compound eyes, and antennae are found.
- 8. This is the life stage in which metamorphosis happens.
- 9. What is laid by adults?
- 11. What hatches out of an egg?
- 12. This type of beetle can pull over 1,000 times its body weight.