Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Starting from a group of yellow eggs found on a cabbage leaf, write the next stages of the cabbage white’s life in order.
Egg (under a leaf) → caterpillar → pupa → butterfly.
2
Name 4 stages of silk farming.
Raising caterpillars; moulting (“sleep”); spinning cocoons; collecting cocoons and reeling thread.
3
Compare the colony’s members in a table: queen, worker, drone.
Queen – lays eggs; worker – does all the work; drone – takes part in fertilising the queen, does no work.
4
How do people benefit from honey bees?
They pollinate and give honey, wax and venom (for medicines).
5
What should you do when stung by a bee?
Stay calm, tell an adult, an adult removes the sting if present; if swelling or breathing trouble occurs, call emergency help.