KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Insects do this with the pair of antennae on their heads. But insects don’t only use their antennae to smell. They can also use them to feel the surface of an object, sense hot and cold, listen to sounds or detect the movement of air or wind. Insects have paired antennae so they can smell in stereo.

Detailed explanation-2: -Touch. Insects are far more sensitive to touch than people are and have touch receptors on hairs located all over their bodies, including their antennae, feet, wings and even their eyes.

Detailed explanation-3: -The antennae are a pair of sense organs located near the front of an insect’s head capsule. Although commonly called “feelers”, the antennae are much more than just tactile receptors. They are usually covered with olfactory receptors that can detect odor molecules in the air (the sense of smell).

Detailed explanation-4: -However, we learned that insect antennae are used to taste in some, but not all, fly species; many lepidopteran, hymenopteran, beetle, and hemipteran species; a few cockroach species, and a few mayfly species, as well as in a locust, a termite, a thrips, a stonefly, and a firebrat species.