Only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood. Male mosquitoes do not bite, but feed on the nectar of flowers.
Only female wasps, bees, and mosquitoes sting.
Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.
There are more different kinds of insects in existence today than the total of all types of other animals put together.
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth
There are more than 100,000 different species of butterflies.
There are more than 80,000 known species of ants.
There are one-celled creatures that have the properties of both plants and animals. An example is the flagellate Euglena, which is propels itself through the water like an animal by means of undulating snakelike appendages. Also, it contains chlorophyll, a substance as characteristic of plants as blood is of animals.
There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas. Essential to the balance of nature, spiders annually consume a hundred times their number in insects.
There is, reportedly, no way to tell a moth from a butterfly. Though there are differences of physiology and habit between them, it is almost impossible to isolate a single differentiating characteristic that applies uniformly to both species.
There really are such thing as "cooties." Though most people believe that "cooties" is just a nonsense word used by children to describe unpleasant insects, cooties are in fact a kind of body lice.
There really are such thing as "cooties." Though most people believe that "cooties" is just a nonsense word used by children to describe unpleasant insects, cooties are in fact a kind of body lice.
To keep bugs out of flour, it is recommended to place a couple of bay leaves in the container.
To make a one-pound comb of honey, bees must collect nectar from about two million flowers.
When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone.
When female wasps return to the colony after foraging, they may initiate aggressive encounters with males and stuff them head first into empty nest cells. Cornell University researchers who observed the behavior call it "male-stuffing," and believe it contributes to the colony's fitness by making more food available to larvae.
With a six-inch wingspan, the cecropia is the largest moth in North America. Its charcoal gray wings are adorned with distinctive “eye spots” and bands of orange and white. The cecropia has feathery antennae and a furry orange-striped body as big as a baby mouse.
Worker ants can carry up to 50 times their own body weight. Worker ants are always female.
Young cockroaches need only a crack as thin as a dime (about .5mm wide) to crawl into. Adult males can squeeze into a space of 1.6mm or the thickness of a quarter. Pregnant females need the most space to hide: 4.5mm or a space as tall as two stacked nickels.
Go to page:
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8
Home
~ About Us
~ Virtual Girl
