INSECTS

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Homework

Draw your favourite insect

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SURVEY

Ask your family about their favourite insect. Write down their answers.

What is an insect?

Insects are invertebrates, which means they have no backbone. Insects have six legs, antennae, and three parts to their body. There are between six and ten million different types of insects. They can eat plants, other animals, and even blood.

Is a spider an insect?

What do they eat?

Insects eat a huge range of foods. Around half are plant-eaters, feeding on leaves, roots, seeds, nectar, or wood. Praying mantises are predators, hunting other small creatures.

Compare and contrast

Humans and insects

If I were an insect...

Which insect would you like to be? Why?