Inspired from https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/confusing-animals-taxonomy-misconceptions/29192
Make a poll with two truths and trash. Partly inspired by a series made by a person who made science experiments on YouTube.
Which one is false?
Answer this, then check if you are correct; No cheating and don’t change your answer!
- Phytophagous Hemiptera can suck blood
- Only female bugs can sting (if they have a stinger, not all insects can sting)
- Earwigs are more related to beetles (e.g. rove beetles) than to crickets
Explanation: 3) is false. The conversation here has a link to a paper on phytophagous Hemiptera sucking in blood because they get confused. In fact, I’ve been sucked on by a mirid!
Make some yourself, see if others can get it right!
I don’t know how you vote, but two of them are false.
you have to click one.
PS: Only one is false. This is a really hard one.
One is clearly false and easily verifiable, so by elimination the other two are true.
You need to make clear whether you want people to pick the false one, or the two true ones. I went to click the true ones, and it took me to the pie chart straight away. I think you want people to select the false one. (Got it right btw :) )
which one is false.
Most people have no idea that one of them is possible and not everyone here has seen an insect phylogeny.
Sure, but edit it into your orignal post. People won’t look at the thread below before trying to vote, because it would give the answer away.
Do house flies suck blood?
They don’t have piercing mouth parts, but if you’re already bleeding they could presumably consume your blood. (Butterfly hematophagy is easy to find reports of, but for house flies search results are swamped with mentions of biting flies.)
This one was very easy for me as dermapterologist 
True bugs do not sting; I assumed that the second one was the wrong one (and probably more people). I think that jhbratton also thought that.
If you’ve ever seen baby earwigs (which are nymphs, not larvae) then it’s pretty clear they’re not holometabolous and can’t be anywhere near beetles on a phylogeny.
For the first option, I’d want clarification. Does “suck blood” imply piercing the skin (which would depend on what skin and which bug; an oleander aphid isn’t getting through elephant skin, but a giant stink bug could certainly make it through shrew skin) or just drinking a puddle of blood using sucking mouthparts, which of course any bug with sucking mouthparts could hypothetically do, since blood is just another liquid.
Which one is false?
- One kind of female fireflies eats the male of another species.
- At least one creature in the world is immortal.
- Rats eat clay when they feel sick.
We can make new polls, right?
Yes. If he had said “Male bugs don’t sting”, that would have been true. But I’m not aware of any Hemiptera which can sting. If someone can convince me that there is a bug somewhere which can sting, I will use it in Lucy’s “What have you learnt this week?” thread.
Explanation: #2 is false. There are no creatures in the world that are fully immortal, for now. The immortal jellyfish is only half-immortal. It cannot die from old age, but it can die from other causes.
suck, kinda bite. No stinger. As I wrote, they can suck blood.
You can make new polls, that is why I wrote:
Yes your one completely got me. I thought clay is inedible for rats + immortal jellyfish are immortal in ideal conditions. Fireflies… I knew that (have you seen Deep Look, I came to know from there)
PS: I’m honestly shocked that only ~17% of voters got my one right. majority of them thought that earwigs are similar to rove beetles which at one point I thought too!
Earwigs are not related to beetles. Beetles have a hard shell. Earwigs only have the butt pincers. Besides, beetles have two pair of wings. Earwigs have one, and they rarely use them
They have two pairs. Search up the data.