CONTENTS WHAT ARE BUGS 8 HOW MANY BUGS ARE THERE IN THE WORLD 10 HOW LONG DO BUGS LIVE 12 HOW SMALL ARE BUGS 14 WHERE DO BUGS LIVE 16 WHAT DO BUGS EAT 18 WHAT BUGS ARE ENDANGERED 20 WHAT BUGS ARE DANGEROUS 22 WHY DO SOME BUGS MIGRATE 24 WHAT ARE SOME COMMON TYPES OF BUGS 26 SPECIES TO SEARCH FOR 31 TRUE OR FALSE 56
What are bugs In this book we define a bug as a type of animal with a hard outer body exoskeleton a segmented body and legs and no backbone invertebrate Some scientists argue that only certain types of insects are true bugs but we’re going to use that term in a general sense and look at a group of animals called arthropods The number of body and leg segments varies from bug to bug Spiders have two body sections and eight legs Insects have three body sections and six legs Some bugs have many body sections and many legs The number of sections and legs determines a bug’s species and class Some bugs including bees and wasps can fly while others including centipedes and caterpillars move around by crawling 8
A type of jumping spider the peacock spider has a unique dance where it wiggles its third pair of legs to get attention 9
