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Bugs Count by the Natural History Museum Invertebrate Picture Quiz

Bugs Count by the Natural History Museum Invertebrate Picture Quiz. © OPAL 2011. All rights reserved. Photos by Harry Taylor unless stated otherwise. Each slide shows examples of a different group of terrestrial invertebrate

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Bugs Count by the Natural History Museum Invertebrate Picture Quiz

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  1. Bugs Count by the Natural History Museum Invertebrate Picture Quiz © OPAL 2011. All rights reserved. Photos by Harry Taylor unless stated otherwise

  2. Each slide shows examples of a different group of terrestrial invertebrate • Look carefully at the images on each slide and try to identify the group of invertebrates they belong to • Click on each slide to reveal the answer, along with key identification features (images are not to scale)

  3. 1. Snails (no legs) 1. Hard, coiled shell Soft, slimy body

  4. 2. Slugs (no legs) 2. Soft, slimy body, without a coiled shell Photo credit: Roy Anderson

  5. 3. Earthworms (no legs) 3. Thickened band (saddle) in adults Long, thin body divided into many segments (‘rings’)

  6. 4. 4. Beetles (6 legs) Biting mouthparts Hard wing-cases, meeting in a T-shape

  7. 5. 5. True bugs (6 legs) Piercing/sucking mouthparts (held underneath head) Wing-cases, usually meet in an X- or Y-shape Very variable group - includes the tiny aphids

  8. 6. 6. True flies (6 legs) One pair of wings Antennae often very short

  9. 7. 7. Bees, wasps & ants (6 legs) Two pairs of wings, but this is hard to see! Long antennae Bees (hairy) Wasp (not hairy) Ant

  10. 8. Butterflies & moths (6 legs) 8. Two pairs of wings (almost always coloured) Long antennae

  11. 9. 9. Grasshoppers & crickets (6 legs) Cricket - very long antennae Long back legs for jumping Grasshopper - short antennae

  12. 10. 10. Earwigs (6 legs) Pincer-shaped claspers (‘cerci’) Long, narrow brown body

  13. 11. 11. Spiders (8 legs) Body clearly divided into two parts

  14. 12. 12. Harvestmen (8 legs) One obvious body part Long, thin legs

  15. 13. 13. Woodlice (>8 legs) 7 pairs of legs Oval shaped body, divided into many segments

  16. 14. Centipedes (>8 legs) 14. Long, thin body, many segments One pair of legs per body segment Usually orange or yellow

  17. 15. Millipedes (>8 legs) Body divided into many segments Two pairs of legs per body segment

  18. 16. Insect larvae (young)

  19. Bugs Count Invertebrate Picture Quiz - answers

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