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Some insect Facts
# The last animal in the dictionary is the Zyzzyva, a tropical weevil.
# Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
# The study of ants is called Myrmecology.
# The biggest ant colony was found on the Ishikari Coast of Hokkaido: 306 million worker ants and 1 million queens lived in 45,000 interconnected nests over an area of 2.7 square kilometres (1,7 square miles). A worker ant will live for up to 5 years; while a Queen will live up to 25 years
# Fleas have changed history. More human deaths have been attributed to fleas than all the wars ever fought. As carriers of the bubonic plague, fleas were responsible for killing one-third of the population of Europe in the 14th century.
# For every person there are rougly 200 million insects.
# The leech has 32 brains.
# The praying mantis only has one ear.
# You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
# On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
# A flea expert is a pullicologist.
# The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
# Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
# A snail can sleep for three years.
# Male flies only gather at the base of bright lights when they are having a mating assembly.
# Bees have five eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
# The fruit flys DNA sequence is 180 million bases long, whilst a humans is three billion.
# Mosquitoes are attracted to the colour blue twice as much as to any other colour.
# Spider web filaments were used in gun sights as the 'cross hairs' until the early 1960's.
# A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
# A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
# The common Black Ants and Wood Ants have no sting, but they can squirt a spray of formic acid. Some birds put ants in their feathers because the ants squirt formic acid which gets rid of the parasites.
# Ticks are second only to the mosquito as the most dangerous parasites to humans.
# The larva of the polyphemus moth consumes 86,000 times its birth weight in its first 56 days.
# Mayflies live for a year or more as larvae; but as adults they live for only a few hours.
# Mexico is the world's pig tapeworm capital with estimates that about 4 percent of all Mexicans have the adult tapeworm in their intestine.
# A bee can see the colours green, blue and ultra-violet - but red looks like black.
# A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn in a day.
# Female fleas consume fifteen times their weight daily.
# Mosquitoes have been found to prefer biting people with smelly feet.
# A rhinoceros beetle can support up to 850 times its own weight on it's back. That would be the equivalent of a man carrying 76 family-sized cars around on his back.
# The silkworm moth has eleven brains.
# A dragonfly can spot an insect moving 33 feet away.
# The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
# When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
# When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone.
# Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
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May one day man and Animals live together in harmony and peace
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