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  • Termites do more damage in the U.S. ever year than all the fires, storms and earthquakes combined. They do an average of $750 million in damage annually.
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  • Most fleas do not live past a year old.
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  • Honeybees use the sun as a compass which helps them navigate.
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  • The rhinoceros beetle can carry up to 850 times its weight on its back. This is equivalent to a person carrying over 50 mini-vans on their back.
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  • In a lifetime, on average a honey bee produces 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey.
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  • The biggest bug in the world is the Goliath Beetle which can weigh up to 3.5 ounces and be 4.5 inches long.
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  • A honey bee has four wings.
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  • The name for insect poop is frass.
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  • A honey bee has four wings.
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  • If all the insects in the world were put on a scale, they would out weigh all creatures.
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  • For every human in the world there are one million ants.
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  • Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue more than any other color.
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  • Ticks can be as small as a grain of rice and grow to be as big as a marble.
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  • One of the most dangerous insect in the world is the common housefly. They carry and transmit more diseases than any other animal in the world.
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  • 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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  • Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight.
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  • Annually a thousand people are killed by scorpions in Mexico.
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  • The sole purpose of a drone bee is to mate with the queen bee.
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  • There is a certain type of Hawk Moth caterpillar from Brazil that inflates its thorax, which makes its head look like a head of a snake when it feels it is in danger or alarmed.
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  • The skeleton of a spider is located on the outside of the body. The name for this is exoskelton.
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  • The largest butterfly is the Queen Alexandra's birdwing butterfly from Papua New Guinea. The wingspan of the butterfly can reach to be almost one foot.
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  • 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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  • When the female grasshopper lays eggs, she covers her eggs with a pasty liquid that protects the eggs throughout the winter.
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  • The word "super" to a beekeeper refers to the hive box where the honey is stored.
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    (Added: Sat May 31 2008 By Admin)
  • 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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