- Only female mosquitoes bite humans. Male mosquitoes live on natural liquids from plants and other resources.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The lifespan of a firefly is about seven days. During these days, they are busy trying to find a mate.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 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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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 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: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Spiders have claws at the ends of their legs.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Spiders usually have eight eyes, but still they cannot see that well.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The average life expectancy of an ant is about 90 days.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 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: Thu Oct 31 2002) - There are approximately 2,700 different species of mosquitoes.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Wasps that feed on ferment occasionally get drunk and pass out.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The brain of an ant has about 250,000 brain cells.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 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: Thu Oct 31 2002) - A house fly's feet are 10 million times more sensitive than a human tongue.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The amount of blood a female mosquito drinks per serving is five millionths of a liter.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 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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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In one day, a queen bee can lay up to 1500 eggs in one day.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - There are over 2,000 species of butterflies in the rainforests of South America.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 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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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Certain female species of spiders such as the Australian crab spider, sacrifice their bodies as a food source for their offspring.
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(Added: Tue Sep 19 2006) - When the only queen ant dies, so does the entire colony, because no new workers are born.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Mosquitoes prefer children over adults.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 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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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - There are about 34,000 species of spiders.
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