All About Beetles

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