Correct Answer - Option 3 : Silkworms
Concept:
- Animals have different senses.
- The animal world is full of examples of amazing senses.
Explanation:
Silkworm:
- The silkworm is the larva or caterpillar of the Bombyx mori moth.
- The moth is important because it makes silk.
- It is entirely dependent on humans, and it no longer lives in the wild.
- Silkworms eat mulberry leaves and are native to northern China.
- Some male insects can recognise their females by their smell.
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Silkworms can find their female worm from many kilometres away by their smell.
Thus, a silkworm can find its female by its smell.
Animals and their super senses:
Mosquito:
- Mosquitoes can find you by the smell of your body.
- They also find you by the smell of the sole of your feet and the heat of your body.
- Mosquitoes are attracted to the carbon dioxide humans and other animals emit.
- They also use their receptors to pick up on other cues like perspiration to find a potential host.
Ants:
- Ants are social insects because they live in large colonies or groups with the queen being the leader and the workers protecting their home.
- Ants usually move in a single line.
- When ants move, they leave a smell on the ground. The other ants follow the smell to find the way.
- Ants are colonial animals.
- Ants are ridiculously strong. They have the ability to carry between 10 and 50 times their own bodyweight!
Honey bee:
- Honeybees are attracted to flowers.
- Honey bees live in a beehive, which is commonly used to describe the nest of any bee colony.
- Honeybees lay their eggs from October to December.
- Honey bees like to feed on the sugar syrup.
