Earth Day Quiz 2024

It’s Earth Day! 🌏 🌳🐝 Give our quiz a go and see how much you know (or don’t know) about our planet.🌱


On the Kerguelen Islands near Antarctica live butterflies that cannot fly. The wind is so powerful that flying is dangerous, and so they have lost that ability over generations.

False. On the Kerguelen Islands near Antarctica live butterflies that cannot fly. The wind is so powerful that flying is dangerous, and so they have lost that ability over generations.

Bees signal to other bees through a language of dance. A "waggle dance," for example, signals that food is nearby, while other dances are used to communicate information about other environmental conditions.

Bees signal to other bees through a language of dance. A "waggle dance," for example, signals that food is nearby, while other dances are used to communicate information about other environmental conditions.

Scientists classify spiders as arachnids, a kind of creature that has four pairs of legs. Dipterans are insects with two sets of wings.

False. Scientists classify spiders as arachnids, a kind of creature that has four pairs of legs. Dipterans are insects with two sets of wings.

One hardworking honey bee produces one 12th of a teaspoon in its entire lifetime(which can last from 36 days in peak summer to 3-4 months in winter). This equates to 12 honey bees producing that single teaspoon.

One hardworking honey bee produces one 12th of a teaspoon in its entire lifetime(which can last from 36 days in peak summer to 3-4 months in winter). This equates to 12 honey bees producing that single teaspoon.

Almost half of the world’s bluebells are found in UK.

Bluebell. Almost half of the world’s bluebells are found in UK.

In the UK pollinators fall within 4 main orders:

Hymenoptera- including all bees and bumblebees, wasps, as well as ants and sawflies

Diptera – true flies, including hoverflies, bee flies, mosquitoes and midges which are amongst many other groups

Lepidoptera – the butterflies and moths

Coleoptera - beetles

The abundance and diversity of wild pollinators has declined sharply over the last 4 decades, due to habitat loss or degradation, pesticide use and intensive farming and land use, development pressure, as well as the increasing impact of climate change.

80. In the UK pollinators fall within 4 main orders:

Hymenoptera- including all bees and bumblebees, wasps, as well as ants and sawflies

Diptera – true flies, including hoverflies, bee flies, mosquitoes and midges which are amongst many other groups

Lepidoptera – the butterflies and moths

Coleoptera - beetles

The abundance and diversity of wild pollinators has declined sharply over the last 4 decades, due to habitat loss or degradation, pesticide use and intensive farming and land use, development pressure, as well as the increasing impact of climate change.

Never mow till the end of May and leave wild patches. Avoid chemical treatments and weed killers.

Without insects and other land-based arthropods, EO Wilson, the renowned Harvard entomologist, and inventor of sociobiology, estimates that humanity would last all of a few months. After that, most of the amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals would go, along with the flowering plants.

Without insects and other land-based arthropods, EO Wilson, the renowned Harvard entomologist, and inventor of sociobiology, estimates that humanity would last all of a few months. After that, most of the amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals would go, along with the flowering plants.