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  • Lady Bugs really are not bugs. They are actually beetles and their correct name is The Ladybird Beetle.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • The loudest insect in the world is the male cicadas, which are like crickets. When they rub their abdomens, the sound made can be heard from 1300 feet.
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    (Added: Sat Sep 20 2008 By Gauher)
  • The silkworm moth has lost the ability to fly ever since it has been domesticated.
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  • A butterfly's taste sensors are located below their feet.
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  • Only female mosquitoes bite humans. Male mosquitoes live on natural liquids from plants and other resources.
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  • 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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  • In July 1874, a swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles. It is estimated that the swarm contained about 12.5 trillion insects. These insects became extinct thirty years later.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
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  • Spiders have claws at the ends of their legs.
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  • Spiders usually have eight eyes, but still they cannot see that well.
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  • The average life expectancy of an ant is about 90 days.
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  • The reason why locusts swarm are because when they are in groups, a "hot-spot" behind their hind legs is stimulated, which in turn causes their destructive nature. A large swarm of locusts can eat eighty thousand tons of corn in a day.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • There are approximately 2,700 different species of mosquitoes.
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  • Wasps that feed on ferment occasionally get drunk and pass out.
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  • The brain of an ant has about 250,000 brain cells.
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  • The beeswax that is produced by Honey bees comes from eight paired glands that are located on the underside of their stomach.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • A house fly's feet are 10 million times more sensitive than a human tongue.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)


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