Insect Facts for Kids, Teachers and Students

Insect Facts for Kids

Welcome to our Insect Facts library. On this page you can access one of the largest collections of facts about insects on the internet. This is an excellent resource for kids, teachers or anyone who wants to learn more about a specific insect species. We hope you find these facts about insects informative, amusing and educational. You can begin to explore our insect facts library by scrolling down and choosing a section.

Our Insect Facts category is separated into different sections. Each section is about a specific type of insect. For example, we have a section about ants, bed bugs and bees. We’re constantly adding new information, if you can’t find the insect facts that you need you should check back often. You can also contact us with your requests, and we’ll add it to one of our future updates.

Each of the available insect fact sections is listed below, in alphabetical order.

Bee Facts for Kids

In this section you’ll learn about bees. You’ll learn what a bee is, what a bee eats, how bees socialize, how bees defend themselves and other facts about bees.

Bee Facts for Kids

Ant Facts for Kids

In this section you’ll learn about ants. You’ll learn what an ant is, what ants eat, how social ants are, how ants communicate and other facts about ants.

Ant Facts for Kids

 

Insects represent more than half of all the known living organisms on our planet. As of today, entomologists have identified and described over one million different species of insects. Estimates put extinct insect species between six and ten million. This means over 90% of all the animal life forms to ever live on our planet were insects. Insects can walk, fly and some even swim. Insects can bite, sting and produce terrible smells. They can make loud noises, damage man-made structures and destroy crops. Some insects live alone, while others build complete colonies, like ants and bees, that have social structures only rivaled by humans.

There are some creepy crawlers that we can insects but aren’t members of the Insecta class. For example, spiders are members of the Arachnida class, but are often called insects. Another example is millipedes, and they are members of the Diplopoda class. Finally, pill bugs, commonly called roly-polies, are members of the Malacostraca class. We tend to think all bugs are insects, but technically they belong to a different class of Arthropods.

Entomology is the study of insects, and a person who studies insects is called an entomologist.