What insect are you?

Quiz Questions

• 1.
  How do you like to spend your free time?

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    Travel
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    Chill by water
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    Sleep in the day, party at night
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    Play music
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    Go dancing 
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    Spend time with family 
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    Sunbathing
• 2.
  What do you like to wear? 

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    Bold prints like spots
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    Bright colours 
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    Mostly dark colours
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    I like to blend in with my surroundings
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    Whatever is in fashion
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    I live in stripes 
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  What's your favourite smell? 

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    Flowers
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    Fresh water 
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    Fruit
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    Grass
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    Soil
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    Anything sweet
• 4.
  How do you prefer to get your food?

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    All-you-can-eat buffets 
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    Fast food, make it to go 
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    I love juice bars 
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    Go to a salad bar
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    Order takeaway, then eat it at home 
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    Street food markets
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  Do you have any interesting table manners?

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    A huge appetite 
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    Eating on the move 
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    A liquid-only diet 
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    Cutting food into tiny pieces 
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    Swishing food around my mouth 
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    Drinking through a reusable straw 
• 6.
  What is your dream job?

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    Gardener - I'm good at caring for plants 
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    Pilot - I have a need for speed 
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    Nurse - I love to care for others
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    Astronomer - I'm a stargazer 
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    Trampolinist - I love to jump 
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    Teacher - I love to pass on knowledge
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    Actor - I'm good at impersonating others
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    Athlete - I have skills
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  If you could have a superpower or special ability, what would it be?

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    Protection from enemies 
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    Super sight
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    Night vision
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    Escape artist
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    Super strength
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    Enhanced intelligence
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    Shapeshifting
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    Super speed

Quiz Outcomes

• 1.
  Ladybird

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  According to your answers you have something in common with these beautiful beetles. The most familiar ladybirds are brightly coloured and patterned, including the seven-spot ladybird pictured here. The bright colours warn predators not to eat them. Ladybirds are big explorers, travelling up to 120 kilometres at a time. A welcome addition to gardens, ladybirds help get rid of aphids, which damage plants. A big appetite means the average ladybird eats more than 5,000 aphids in a year. Ladybirds are attracted to the sweet liquid that aphids secrete, called honeydew.
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  Dragonfly

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  Like these beautiful creatures, you stand out from the crowd. Dragonflies come in a dazzling array of colours, including brilliant blues and greens like the emperor dragonfly above. They're fast - able to fly at nearly 50 kilometres per hour - and have impressive vision thanks to eyes that cover nearly their whole head. Dragonflies keep mosquito populations down and can be seen hanging around ponds and marshy areas in search of food. They can create a basket with their forearms to catch food on the move.
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  Moth

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  It seems, like marvellous moths, you have an underappreciated style. Often dismissed as butterflies' drab cousins, many moths wear striking patterns and colours, like this emperor moth. Moths have developed cunning ways to evade bats, their biggest predators. Some moths make high-pitched, ultrasonic squeaks that jam the sonar bats use to locate them. Adult moths stick to an all-liquid diet (if they eat at all). Most drink nectar from flowers, sap from trees or sugary liquid from fruits. Many moths doze all day and stay up at night. Some flowers have evolved to produce night-time perfume to attract moths to them. But some moths can see colours in the dark.
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  Grasshopper

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  It looks like you have lots in common with high-jumping, musical grasshoppers. While their green and earthy colours may make them hard to spot, their 'singing' can't be missed. The chirping sound is made by male grasshoppers rubbing a hind leg against their forewing - like how you use a bow to play a violin. Grasshoppers eat plants, particularly grasses. They cut their food into little pieces before eating. Adult grasshoppers can jump 10 times their length into the air and 20 times their length forwards. The human equivalent would be leaping over a five-story building or long-jumping a third of the length of a football pitch. Talented escape artists, most grasshoppers can also fly.
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  Ant

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  Loyal to your family, you have lots in common with the hard-working ant. Social creatures, ants live in large groups or colonies. They have different jobs depending on their age. Young ants care for the queen and other young, while older ants clean and forage for food. Ants love sweet foods but are omnivorous, eating everything from fruits to other ants. They take food back to the colony using their super strength - ants can lift 10 to 100 times their bodyweight. Ants break up their food by swishing small particles with saliva to form a paste as they don't eat solid food in adulthood.
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  Bee

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  It looks like you have lots in common with these intelligent insects. Bees fly from plant to plant in search of sweet nectar, which they drink using their straw-like tongue (called a proboscis). Bees are great at navigating, using a mixture of tools to guide them on their quest for food. They use the Sun's position, a magnetic compass and odour trails or a mental map of landmarks. Some bees dance. When a honeybee finds a particularly good flower patch it returns to its colony and performs a 'waggle dance' while smelling of the flower, teaching the others how to get there.
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  Hoverfly

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  Like these striking insects, it seems you have a strong sense of style inspired by others. Many hoverflies imitate bees and wasps. This disguise helps protect them from predators wary of stings, which hoverflies don't have. Some hoverflies, like the marmalade fly pictured, are big travellers. Up to four billion hoverflies migrate to and from Britain every year. Fond of sunbathing and hovering in sunbeams, hoverflies can switch to rapid flight. They can even fly backwards - a rare talent, even among insects. Adult hoverflies mainly eat nectar and pollen. Moving from flower to flower, they are important pollinators. This ability to digest pollen is unusual for true flies, which can generally only eat liquid food.