Insects
Butterflies taste with their hind feet
The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.
A bee has five eyes, two large compound eyes on
either side of its head, and three ocelli (primitive eyes)
on top of its head to detect light intensity.
Tarantulas can survive on a diet of one large insect a month.
A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph
(11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar.
Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
It takes 110 domestic silkworm cocoons to make a man's tie
The honeybee kills more people each year world-wide than venomous snakes
Crushed cockroaches can be applied to a stinging wound to
help relieve the pain
Spiders have transparent blood.
Insects consume 10 percent of the world's food supply every year.
The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent than that of a rattlesnake
Spiders never spin webs in structures made of chestnut wood.
That is why so many European chateaux were built with
chestnut beams –– spider webs on a 50-foot beamed ceiling can be
difficult to clean.
The male praying mantis often loses his head ––
literally –– after
courting the female. The latter is known to decapitate the earnest suitor,
and she often completely devours him.
It would take 27,000 spiders, each spinning a single web, to produce a pound of web.
A bumble bee flaps its wings 160 beats per second.
