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  • There are more than 2,400 flea species in the world.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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