Invertebrate Inquiries Trivia Quiz

Answer: shieldbug

Stinkbugs are also called shieldbugs because of the shape of their bodies.

Answer: Their mood changes.

Their flat, internal shells are often used for birds to chew on.

Answer: Watch over them.

Giant Pacific octopi can lay many thousands of eggs that take 5-8 months to hatch. The mother stays with them the whole time.

Answer: branchhopper

Froghoppers are good jumpers, leafhoppers transmit courtship signals through plants, treehoppers look like thorns, and I made up branchhoppers.

Answer: wasps

Velvet ants get their name because of the velvety hairs that cover the females. These females are wingless and look like ants. They have powerful stings.

Answer: pillbug

Pill millipedes are a shinier black and have more legs than a pillbug, or pill woodlouse.

Answer: brine shrimp

Brine shrimp eggs can go 5 years before hatching.

Answer: vibrate the web

Cellar spiders are also called daddy-long-legs.

Answer: tissue degeneration

Six-eyed crab spiders, or brown recluse spiders, are easily identified by a violin-shaped mark on their carapace, behind their eyes and fangs. They are found in warm parts of the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Australia in shady areas with rock or bark. Brown spiders though, are very shy and tend to keep to themselves, hence the name brown recluse spiders.

Answer: sea wasp

Black widows and Portuguese-man-of-wars cause severe pain, but do not kill, blue-ringed octopi kill in 15 minutes, and sea wasps, or Australian box jellyfish, are only 10 in. in diameter, but kill in 2 minutes.