INSECTS

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT INSECTS

1.                 There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.

2.                 A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.

3.                 For every human in the world there are one million ants.

4.                 Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders.

5.                 Apiphobia is the fear of bees.

6.                 A housefly hums in the key of F.

7.                 Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!

8.                 Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs.

9.                 A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.

10.            There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill six cats!

11.            The honey bee has been around for 30 million years.

12.            Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.

13.            The flea can jump up to 200 times its own height. This is equal to a man jumping the Empire State Building in New York.

14.            A garden caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

15.            A moth has no stomach.

16.            If you cut off a snail’s eye, it will grow a new one.

17.            Lonomia obliqua is the world's deadliest caterpillar.

18.            Fireflies are the only creatures that give off light without generating heat.

19.            A butterfly has 12,000 eyes.

20.            After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again.

21.            Bumblebees have hair on their eyes.

22.            Butterflies have their skeletons on the outside of their bodies, this is known as the exoskeleton.

23.            Butterflies can only see the colors red, green and yellow.

24.            There are roughly twenty-four thousand species of butterflies.

25.            Fireflies are also known as lightning bugs.

26.            Dumbledore isn’t only the Headmaster of Hogwarts; in fact a dumbledore is an old English term for a type of bee.

27.            Most young fireflies feed on nectar and pollen, although adult fireflies do not need to eat to survive.

28.            There are over 70,000 types of spiders spinning their webs in the world.

29.            There are 3,000 kinds of lice in the world.

30.            The life of a housefly is only 14 days.

31.            There’s a spider in Brazil whose bites can cause an erection that lasts for hours!

32.            There are no ants in Iceland, Greenland, and Antarctica.

33.            In colonial America, lobster wasn't exactly a delicacy. It was so cheap and plentiful it was often served to prisoners.

34.            The number of insect species is believed to be between six and ten million.

35.            Some insects, such as gerridae (water striders), are able to walk on the surface of water.

36.            Bees, termites and ants live in well organized social colonies.

37.            Only male crickets chirp.

38.            Insects are cold blooded.

39.            Silkworms are used as the primary producer of silk.

40.            Most insects hatch from eggs.

41.            Some cicadas can make sounds nearly 120 decibels loud.

42.            The life cycle of a mosquito features four stages, egg, larva, pupa and adult.

43.            Female mosquitoes drink blood in order to obtain nutrients needed to produce eggs.

44.            Bees are found on every continent except Antarctica.

45.            Ants leave trails and communicate with each other using pheromones as chemical signals.

46.            An Australian tiger beetle is probably the world’s fastest running insect.