First Children Encyclopedia

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1

Apart from honey, what else does a bee produce that we can use?


The living world


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A huge majority of creepy crawlies are


insects. In fact there are more types of


insect in the world than any other


animal. They are absolutely


everywhere. Some are almost too small


to see and others are surprisingly large.


The world of insects

When a pile
of dung
appears in
Africa, dung
beetles are on
the scene in
minutes.

Most insects
have two pairs
of wings.

The beetles roll
perfect balls of
dung in which
they lay a single
egg. When the
egg hatches,
the larva eats
the dung.

Nature’s recycling service


Although many people dislike insects


and they can be pests, they are also


essential to our world. In


fact we could not live


without them. For


instance, these


dung beetles


do a very good


job cleaning


up dung.


What is an insect?
You can tell if a creepy
crawly is an insect because
insects always have six
legs. They also have three
body parts – a head, a
thorax, and an abdomen.

Beetle

Remember,
insects have
3 + 3. Three
pairs of legs
and three
body parts.

Dung
beetles
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