- A colony of bees have to fly almost fifty-five thousand miles and tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - 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.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - A housefly can only ingest liquid material. They regurgitate their food to liquify the food that they are going to eat.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Although the worker honey bee's brain is only a cubic millimeter, it has the densest neuropile tissue of any animal.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Ants can lift an object up to fifty times their body-weight and carry it over their heads. They don't do this with their feet, but with their mouths.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Bees can communicate with other bees by dancing. Their dance can alert other bees as to which direction and the distance nectar and pollen is located.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Cricket chirping can tell the temperature outside. Counting how many times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds and then adding 40 to that number will approximately tell you what the temperature is in Fahrenheit.
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