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- Some spiders have as many as eight eyes.
- The monarch butterfly's sense of taste is about 12,000 times more sensitive than a human's.
- According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the best time to spray household insects is 4:00 p.m. Insects are most vulnerable at this time.
- After mating, the female black widow spider turns on her partner and devours him. The female may dispatch as many as twenty-five suitors a day in this manner.
- An ant can survive for up to two weeks underwater.
- Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
- On an average day, a queen bee lays about 1,500 eggs.
- Bees have been known to cure rheumatism.
- A mosquito has 47 teeth.
- Tarantulas do not use muscles to move their legs. They control the amount of blood pumped into them to extend and retract their legs.
- Any Female bee in a beehive could have been the queen if she had been fed the necessary royal jelly. All female bees in a given hive are sisters.
- The longest species of centipede is the giant scolopender (Scolopendra gigantea), found in the rain forests of Central and South America. It has 23 segments (46 legs) and specimens have been measured up to 10.5 inches long and 1" in diameter.
- Female mosquitos will obtain blood from humans and animals, but only to nourish their eggs. Their food actually consists of nectar and other plant juices.
- Ladybugs bleed to protect themselves. When alarmed, they release drops of a reddish or yellowish bitter tasting liquid from their mouths and from the pores at their joints. This repels prospective attackers.
- Certain kinds of insects can live as long as a year after having their head severed. What's more, the insects can still react to stimuli, such as light and temperature.
- March 14 is "Save a spider day."
- The beautiful but deadly Australian sea wasp (Chironex fleckeri) is the most venomous jellyfish in the world. Its cardiotoxic venom has caused the deaths of 66 people off the coast of Queensland since 1880, with victims dying within 1-3 minutes if medical aid is not available.
- The leaf bug of ceylon (phyllum sicci folium) has legs and antennae the color and shape of leaves, has indentations on its body like the vein marks on a leaf, and hangs from branches, swaying in the breeze exactly like a leaf.
- The black widow spider can devour as many as twenty 'mates' in a single day.
- Tarantulas are poisonous, but the concentration of the venom in those found in North America is low enough that they're usually not a threat to human life. In fact, some people keep them as pets.
- Certain fireflies emit a light so penetrating that it can pass through flesh and wood.
- Tropical ants, when a flood sweeps down on them, roll themselves into a huge living ball which drifts upon the water, with the young safe and dry at the core.
- Scientists turn up as many as 10,000 new species of insects every year.
- Worms can have up to ten hearts.
- The dragonfly has about 30,000 lenses covering the retina of its eye, and thus sees many, many images where we see only one.
- Fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
- Male bees will try to attract sex partners with orchid fragrance.
- If two flies were left to reproduce without predators or other limitations for one year, the resulting mass of flies would be the size of the Earth.
- Maggots were once used to treat a bone infection called osteomyelitis.
- Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
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