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The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
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A cat's urine glows under a black light.An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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Starfish have no brains.Polar bears are left-handed.
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee .
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The natural diet of Lady Beetles consists of soft bodied insects such as aphids, spider mites, and young caterpillars. Adults can consume up to 100 aphids a day.Some species of male butterflies produce scents that serve in attracting females during courtship.
The giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair.
A nest in which insects or spiders deposit their eggs is called a "nidus".
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.
The average airspeed of the common housefly is only 4.5 mph. A housefly beats its wings about 20,000 times per minute.
Small cockroaches are more likely to die on their backs than large cockroaches.
In green areas, there is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre.
Fleas can jump more than 200 times their body length.
Crickets don't chirp by rubbing their legs together, they make the noise by rubbing their wings together.
The social life in ants and termites has been accompanied by an extraordinary royal perk: a 100-fold increase among queen ants in average maximum lifespan, with some queens surviving for almost 30 years. This longevity can be attributed in part to the sheltered and pampered life of the royal egg layer.
Between 20,000 and 60,000 bees live in a single hive.
The queen bee lays nearly 1,500 eggs a day and lives for up to 2 years. The drone, whose only job is to mate with the queen bee, has a lifespan of around 24 days; he has no sting. Worker bees, all sterile females, usually work themselves to death within 40 days, collecting pollen and nectar. Worker bees will fly up to 9 miles to find pollen and nectar, and can reach flying speeds as fast as 15 mph.
There are 4,300 known species of ladybugs in the world.
You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.
The tarantula spends most of its life within its burrow, which is an 18-inch vertical hole with an inch-wide opening. When male tarantulas are between the ages of 5 to 7 years, they leave the burrow in search of a female, usually in the early fall. This migration actually signals the end of their life cycle. The males mate with as many females as they can, and then they die around mid-November.
Until recently, no centipede was found that did not have an odd number of leg pairs. Usually the number varies from 15 to 191 pairs, all odd. No one knows why. However, Chris Kettle, a doctoral student in ecology, recently found a centipede with 48 pairs of legs, an even number. The remarkable discovery was presented to the International Congress of Myriapodology in Poland and featured in the science journal Trends in Genetics. Mr. Kettle suspects a genetic mutation is responsible for the even number of leg pairs.
62 degrees Fahrenheit is the minimum temperature required for a grasshopper to be able to hop.
Mosquitoes prefer the blood of children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
Spiders have transparent blood.
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are humans on the entire planet.
A spiders web is made of two types of silk, one sticky and the other not. The spider begins the web with the non sticky silk to form the spokes. After the frame is constructed and secure, the spider returns with the sticky silk and completes the web design we are so familiar with, connecting spoke to spoke. They will also add rows connecting the spokes to allow them access for web maintenance. If you ever spend an idle afternoon watching a spider at web-building, you will see that they painstakingly avoid the sticky silk and walk on the spokes. Should the spider be startled and walk into the sticky silk, it will affix to the spider the same as it would you or any thing else. Spiders recycle their webbing, so a spider that gets stuck in its own web may eat its way out.
Some crickets burrow megaphone-like tunnels that help transport the sound of their chirps as far as 2,000 feet away.
A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar.
A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times, and a tiny gnat 1,000 times.
A fly can react to something it sees and change direction in 30 milliseconds.
A housefly can transport germs as far as 15 miles away from the original source of contamination.
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 silkworm's silk comes out of its mouth as a thread of gooey liquid. That nice silk shirt you spent a fortune on is really just worm spit.
Some spiders have as many as eight eyes.
The monarch butterfly's sense of taste is about 12,000 times more sensitive than that of a human.
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 mosquitoes extract blood from humans and animals 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, to repel 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.
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. Without immediate medical assistance, victims will die within 3 minutes.
The leaf bug of Sri Lanka (phyllum sicci folium) has legs and antennae the color and shape of leaves, 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 types of firefly 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 discover as many as 10,000 new insect species each 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.
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 lives for just 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.
Of the known 20,000 species of bee, 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 performed successful brain surgery on cockroaches.
Insects make up two thirds of the known species.
A bee has four wings.
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 its 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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How often does Halley's Comet make it's rounds?
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A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon.