Facts about Bees and Wasps
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While gathering food, a bee may fly up to 60 miles in one day.
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A single honeybee colony can produce around 220 lbs of honey each year
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Honeybees have to make about ten million trips to collect enough nectar for production of one pound of honey.
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Wasps feeding on fermenting juice have been known to get “drunk’ and pass out.
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A bee’s wings beat 190 times a second, that’s 11,400 times a minute.
Facts About Flies
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Houseflies find sugar with their feet, which are 10 million times more sensitive than human tongues.
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Fruit flies were the first living creatures to be sent into space
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Some male stoneflies do push-ups to attract a mate
Facts About Ants
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Ants can lift and carry more than fifty times their own weight.
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There are nearly as many species of ants as there are species of birds in the world.
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Bulldog ants can leap seven times the length of their bodies!
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Ant colonies can survive flood waters by clumping together to form an island
Facts About Caterpillars and Butterflies
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Caterpillars have 12 eyes.
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Mexican Jumping Beans, sometimes sold commercially, actually have a caterpillar of a bean moth inside.
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Approximately 2,000 silkworm cocoons are needed to produce one pound of silk.
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It takes about one hundred Monarch Butterflies to weigh an ounce.
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
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The red postman butterfly develops its own poison by eating toxic plants!
Facts About Termites and Beetles
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A Termite Queen can lay 40,000 eggs per day.
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Beetles account for 1/4 of all known species of plants and animals. There are more kinds of beetles than all plants
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One dung beetle can drag 1,141 times its weight – that’s like a human pulling six double-decker buses!
Unique Facts About Insects
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Each year, scientists discover more than seven thousand new insect species.
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There are about 91,000 different kinds (species) of insects in the United States. In the world, some 1.5 million different kinds (species) have been named.
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About one-third of all insect species are carnivorous, and most hunt for their food rather than eating decaying meat or dung.
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The oldest known fossil of an insect dates back 400 million years and is a springtail.
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Insects have been present for about 350 million years, and humans for only 300,000 years.
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Grasshoppers existed before dinosaurs!
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Dragonflies have been on earth for 300 million years!
Facts About Grasshoppers
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Grasshoppers have special organs in their hind legs that store energy for jumping.
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A grasshopper’s jump, assisted with its wings, can reach a speed of up to eight miles per hour
Facts About Mosquitos
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Mosquitos are attracted to smelly feet
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A mosquito flaps its wings 500 times a second
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1 out of 1000 female mosquitos carries a disease that could be fatal to humans
