Bugs, butterflies, and spiders: Children's understandings about insects

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Effects of Keeping Animals as Pets on Children's Concepts of Vertebrates and Invertebrates (2008, background): “Some other researchers (e.g., Shepardson, 2002), investigating children’s ideas about insects, did not examine the effect of children’s personal experiences on their knowledge about insects explicitly.”
The insectivore’s dilemma, and how to take the West out of it (2015, background): “…the folk category of ‘insects’ extends to organisms other than those of the Linnaean class Insecta, such as spiders, lizards, scorpions, or even bats, snakes, toads, and slugs (e.g., Costa-Neto, 2000; Posey, 1984; see also Shepardson, 2002, on children’s conception of insects and Table 2).”
What Plants and Animals Do Early Childhood and Primary Students’ Name? Where Do They See Them? (2011, unknown): “Shepardson (2002) have determined that 5–11 year olds understand how insects feed, their locomotion, and their physical characteristics, such as size and shape.”
Communicating and Thinking Through Drawing Activity in Early Childhood (2014, background): “Perhaps that is the reason why drawing activities have been successfully used for exploring young children’s ideas in different areas of the curriculum and, in some cases, for enhancing learning in areas such as natural phenomena (e.g., Fleer, 1997; Kampeza, 2006; Papandreou & Terzi, 2011; Robbins, ”