Looking at different insects such as bees, flies, ladybirds, mosquitoes, ants, beetles and butterflies.
Characteristics such as colour: bees are black and yellow, ladybirds are red and black (not always).
Butterflies are multiple colours.
Characteristics such as their bodies: They have segmented bodies meaning it is broken up into three parts, have 6 legs (3 pairs of jointed legs), exoskeleton, antennae and wings (National Geographic, 2023).
1- Head and includes eyes, antennae, mouth.
2- Thorax is the middle part and is where the wings and legs are attached to the body.
3- Abdomen has the reproductive and digestive organs (Purdue University, 2023).
Insects are invertebrates meaning they do not have backbones (Twinkl, n.d.).