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Lesson 6, Some Strange Things About Insects, , You walk with your legs. You have two legs. So you are a two-legged, animal. All men are two-legged animals., , The birds are also two-legged animals: but the beasts are not. Cows, horses,, elephants, tigers etc walk with four legs. So all of them are four-legged animals., , Have you noticed a housefly? How many legs has it? It has six legs. Mark, a mosquito. It has six legs too. What do we call these six-legged animals? We, , call them insects. Flies, ants, bees, grasshoppers, beetles, cockroaches, crickets, , and butterflies are all insects., , , , , , You taste something with your tongue, but a fly tastes with its feet! To, taste something it walks on it!, , Suppose you want to smell something. What do you do then? You put your, nose near it, but a fly has no nose. It smells things with the two feelers on its, , head., , You breathe air through your nostrils, but insects do it through very small, holes in their bodies., , We see with our eyes. Man has two eyes. Birds and beasts have also two, eyes each. But what about an insect? An insect's eye is really hundreds of tiny, , eyes., , Suppose a butterfly is looking at a flower. Each tiny eye of the butterfly, sees a piece of the flower. In this way it is able to see the whole flower., , 47, , 2022/01/25 07:34