You're a human with a lifetime of experience with Earth and it's diverse ecosystems, Starscream--who is essentially your guardian--is an alien robot with around a single year of experience with Earth and it's diverse ecosystems. So it's obvious he'd ask you so many questions about small things he didn't understand, like bugs or trees.

You and Starscream would be sitting in a large, open field full of tall grasses and small patches of snowy white yarrow. It would soon turn into nighttime as the fireflies arose from their hiding spot, flying around and decorating the sky with their glowing orange colors, " Locust , what are those flying orange specks , “ Starscream demanded you to tell him what the "flying orange specks" were as his optics focused on them.