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Insects Around the World

Entomology

Test your geographical knowledge of famous insects and where they live across the globe.

insects geography nature biology

10 Questions Easy Ages 5+ Oct 5, 2026

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1 Which insect completes a famous multi-generational migration each year from North America to central Mexico?

A Monarch butterfly
B Honeybee
C Housefly
D Ladybug

2 In which country did the domestication of the silkworm for silk production first begin thousands of years ago?

A Egypt
B China
C Italy
D Mexico

3 On which continent are Goliath beetles, among the heaviest insects in the world, naturally found in the wild?

A Europe
B Australia
C Africa
D North America

4 What is the name of the flightless insect that is the only native purely terrestrial insect found in Antarctica?

A Antarctic midge
B Ice beetle
C Snow flea
D Polar ant

5 Bulldog ants, known for their large mandibles and powerful stings, are native to which country?

A Canada
B Australia
C Japan
D Norway

6 In which South American country were Africanized honey bees first introduced in the 1950s before spreading across the Americas?

A Argentina
B Chile
C Peru
D Brazil

7 Periodical cicadas that emerge above ground in massive broods every 13 or 17 years are native to which country?

A United States
B India
C France
D South Africa

8 Tsetse flies, which carry the parasite that causes sleeping sickness, are endemic to which continent?

A South America
B Africa
C Asia
D Europe

9 Which famous tropical region in South America contains the world's largest known diversity of insect species?

A Amazon Rainforest
B Sahara Desert
C Siberian Tundra
D Mojave Desert

10 Desert locusts, famous for forming massive swarms that destroy crops in East Africa and Asia, belong to which insect group?

A Dragonflies
B Grasshoppers
C Mosquitoes
D Termites

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