Giant hornet workers capture a variety of insects, including bees and yellowjackets, to feed their young. Workers strip back bark from shrubs – a favorite is lilac. As they girdle the branches, they lick the sap from the torn edge.
Gypsy moth larvae are very mobile. They also have a voracious and devastating appetite. Gypsy moth larvae have the potential to defoliate more than 2 million acres of Northeastern U.S. forests per year. In 1869, a Massachusetts naturalist imported gypsy moths from France, hoping to cross them with the American silk moth and create a hardy thread-making caterpillar. Not only did his experiment fail, but disaster resulted when some of the moths escaped. Each generation of offspring, floating in the breeze on tiny sails of spun silk and body hairs, can be carried further than 20 miles away.
The average house fly lives only two weeks.
The average life expectancy of a queen bee is 6 years, a worker bee, 6 months, and a drone, just 8 weeks.
The average spider can travel up to 1.17 miles per hour.
The bombardier beetle, when disturbed, defends itself by emitting a series of explosions, sometimes setting off four or five in succession. The noises sound like miniature popgun blasts and are followed by a cloud of reddish-colored, vile-smelling fluid.
The bumblebee does not die when it stings – it can sting again and again. In bumblebee hives, the entire colony, except for the queen, dies at the end of each summer. Each year, an entirely new colony of bees must be produced.
The buzzing of flies and bees is not produced by any sound-producing apparatus within the insects' bodies. It is simply the sound of their wings moving up and down at a rapid rate.
The caterpillar has more than 2,000 muscles.
The caterpillar of the monarch butterfly will eventually multiply its original weight by 2,700 times. If a 7-pound newborn human gained weight at the same rate, as an adult, it would weigh well over 9 tons.
The common male housefly completes its entire life cycle in just 17 days.
The evolution of social life in ants and termites has been accompanied by an extraordinary royal perk — a 100-fold increase among queen ants in average maximum lifespan, with some queens surviving for almost 30 years. This longevity can be attributed in part to the sheltered and pampered life of the royal egg layer.
Honey bees have shown a preference for yellow and blue flowers.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
Honeybees navigate using the sun as a compass, even when it is hidden behind clouds - they find it via the polarization of ultraviolet light from areas of blue sky.
If humans could jump like fleas, they'd be able to leap over a 100-story building in a single bound.
If one places a minute amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
If the name of every insect were printed in an average-size book, it would take about 6,000 pages to list them all. There are more than 900,000 known species of insects in the world.
In a beehive, only one and a half ounces of wax are used to build a comb that will hold four pounds of honey.
In a year's time, bees gather 80,000 tons of pollen in the United States.
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