Science in the Media Table of Contents
A Bug's Life
Fact or Fiction Movie Review
| Fact | Fiction |
| Insects have six legs | Fleas don't die after being hit by burning fly paper |
| Spiders have four pairs of joined legs | The faces of insects show age: wrinkles/smooth skin with freckles |
| Insects, like Slim, have a circulatory system | Ants climb up stalks of wheat to pull out a seed to drop to ants below to then be taken through an assembly line |
| All ants are social insects that live in colonies with well-defined castes and divisions of labor | Only female queens have wings |
| Worker ants will heard and protect aphids while harvesting their honeydew secretions | Worker ants are male |
| Some grasshoppers rub their wings together to create music, others snap their wings together while flying, and others just rub their hind legs across their front wings. | Insects have hands with fingers |
| Salt hurts slugs | Grasshoppers walk on two legs |
| Rhinoceros beetles, like Dim, use their horn for display, intimidation, and courtship fights | All ladybugs are red with black dots |
| Caterpillars, like Heimlich, go through holometabolous metamorphosis | Insects can break a leg and it can heal by putting a cast on it |
| Flies have compound eyes | Pill bugs, like Tuck and Roll, have eyebrows |
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