- The amount of blood a female mosquito drinks per serving is five millionths of a liter.
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- The itch from a mosquito bite can be soothed by cutting open a clove of garlic and rubbing it on the bite.
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- In one day, a queen bee can lay up to 1500 eggs in one day.
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- There are over 2,000 species of butterflies in the rainforests of South America.
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- The color in a butterfly's wings does not come from pigment. The color is produced prism-like by light reflected by their transparent wing scales.
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- When the only queen ant dies, so does the entire colony, because no new workers are born.
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- Mosquitoes prefer children over adults.
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- The fastest flying butterfly is the Monarch, which has been clocked with a speed as high as 17 miles per hour.
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- There are about 34,000 species of spiders.
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- There are more than 2,400 flea species in the world.
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- Only the female black widow spider has a poisonous bite. The male spider's venom is not poisonous and it does not attack its prey.
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- For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter ants have been used to close wounds in India, Asia and South America.
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- The study of ants is called Myrmecology.
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- The average life span of a mosquito is two weeks.
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- The speed at which honey bees fly is at 15 miles per hour.
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- 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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- The largest spider ever was the Megarachne which had a diameter of 50 cm. The fossil was found in Argentina.
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- If a cockroach breaks a leg it can grow another one.
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- 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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- 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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- Termites have been around for over 250 million years.
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- 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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- The dragonfly has not changed over the last 300 million years.
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- A cockroach can change directions up to 25 times in a second.
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- German cockroaches can survive for up to one month without food and two weeks without water.
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