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1. Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight.
 
2. If all the insects in the world were put on a scale, they would out weigh all creatures.
 
3. For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter ants have been used to close wounds in India, Asia and South America.
 
4. The longest insect is a walking stick [...]

 
1. The itch from a mosquito bite can be soothed by cutting open a clove of garlic and rubbing it on the bite.
 
2. Mosquitoes prefer children over adults.
 
3. Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue more than any other color.
 
4. A mosquito flaps its wings 500 times a second.
 
5. The average life span of a [...]

 
1. A flea can jump 150 times its size. That is the same as a person able to jump up 1,000 feet in the air.
 
2. A dragonfly has a lifespan of for to seven weeks.
 
3. A housefly can only ingest liquid material. They regurgitate their food to liquefy the food that they are going to [...]

1. The heaviest insect in the world is the Goliath beetle from Africa. A big male can weigh up to 100 grams.
 
2. There are more than 300,000 species of beetles, making them the largest order of insects in the world.
 
3. The metallic-colored wing covers of some beetles are used for jewelry.

 
1. Butterflies get their name from the yellow brimstone butterfly of Europe that is first seen in the early spring or “butter” season.
 
2. Female Queen Alexandra butterflies, from Papua and New Guinea, are the largest in the world, some with wingspans larger than 26 cm.
 
3. Butterflies and moths are found on all land masses except [...]

  
1. Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
 
2. German cockroaches can survive for up to one month without food and two weeks without water.
 
3. A cockroach can change directions up to 25 times in a second.
 
4. If a cockroach breaks a leg it can grow another one.
 
5. The earliest fossil cockroach is about 280 [...]

 
1. Bees fly an average of 13-15 mph.
 
2. A bee travels an average of 1600 round trips in order to produce one ounce of honey; up to 6 miles per trip. To produce 2 pounds of honey, bees travel a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.
 
3. Honeybees visit about 2 million flowers to [...]

 
1. Wasps that feed on ferment occasionally get drunk and pass out.
 
2. Tarantula wasps paralyze tarantulas and lay a single egg on the still living spider; when the egg hatches, the wasp larva has fresh food.
 
3. The female yellow jacket wasp lays both fertilized and unfertilized eggs. Female workers develop from the fertilized egg and [...]