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- Moths have no stomach.
- The male of one species of insect related to the praying mantis can only reproduce after the female has bitten off his head.
- Honeybees navigate using the sun as a compass, even when it is hidden behind clouds - they find it via the polarization of ultraviolet light from areas of blue sky.
- The katydid has supersonic hearing. It can hear sounds up to 4-5,000 vibrations per second.
- Little Miss Muffet was arachnaphobic.
- A typical Mayfly only lives one day.
- The silkworm moth has lost the ability of flight due to domestication.
- The largest insect in the world, the meganeuron, a prehistoric dragonfly, measured 29 inches from wingtip to wingtip.
- Out of 20000 species of bees, only 4 make honey.
- A dragonfly's penis is shovel-shaped at the end, to scoop a rival male's sperm out of the female it's impregnating.
- A swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska on July 20-30, 1874 covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles. The swarm must have contained at least 12.5 trillion insects, weighing about 27.5 million tons.
- Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
- Insects make up two thirds of known species.
- A bee has four wings.
- A mature, well-established termite colony with as many as 60,000 members will eat only about one-fifth of an ounce of wood a day.
- The berry butterflies (hypsa monycha) of Singapore, in their caterpillar stage, group around the top of a stem to foil predatory birds by imitating the appearance of a poisonous berry.
- Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
- Crickets hear through their knees.
- In relation to its size, the ordinary house spider is eight times faster than an Olympic sprinter.
- There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in it's body to kill six cats.
- The ichneumon fly has a sense of smell so keen that it can locate a caterpillar deep inside a tree trunk.
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