- There are more insects every square mile than there are humans on this earth.
- The U.S wasps kill more people than snakes, spiders and scorpions altogether.
- There are over 900,000 known species of insects in the world.
- There are more people killed each year by bees then by snakes.
- When insects are eaten beetles taste like apples, wasps taste like pine nut, and worms taste like fried bacon.
- Dragonflies only have a lifespan of twenty-four hours.
- A dragonfly has as many as 30,000 lenses in each eye.
- On an average worker ants live seven years while the queen lives as longs as fifteen years.
- For every human on the planet there are over 200 million insects.
- There are over 350,000 species of beetles known.
- The largest member of the insect family are beetles.
- The largest ants in the world measure 1 1/4 inches long and are found in Brazil.
- There are only one Queen bee in each hive.
- The Queen bee is the only bee that can lay eggs.
- A mosquito’s sharp proboscis is what makes a mosquito bite itch.
- An average mosquito has forty-seven teeth.
- Fleas can jump eight hundred times farther than its body length.
- Tapeworms can range from 0.04 inches to fifty feet in length
- Sometimes worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
- Waking Sticks are the longest insects which can reach up to thirty-three centimeters.
- Dragonflies are the fastest known insect, which can fly fifty-eight kilometers an hour.
- Female ladybugs are usually bigger than male ladybugs.
- Ladybugs feed of of their stored fat during hibernation.
- A female ladybug will lay over 1,000 eggs in her lifetime.
- There are over 5,000 different different kinds of ladybugs in the world.
- There are about 400 different types of ladybugs in North America.
- The Goliath Beetle is the worlds largest insect, which can be as long as 4.5 inches and weigh up to 3.5 ounces.
- Moths and butterflies are found on all land masses except Antarctica.
- In the rain forests of South America there are over 2,000 species of butterflies.
- The Monarch butterfly is the fastest flying butterfly which can fly up to seventeen miles per hour.
- On an average bees can fly thirteen to fifteen miles per hour.
- To make one pond of honey, honeybees visit about two million flowers.
- There are about 45,000 bees in every bee hive.
- The only insect that produces food for humans are honeybees.
- The average temperature of a bee hive is 93.5 degrees.
- The average lifespan of a housefly is fourteen days.
- Flies are attracted to heat, low wind and light.
- In North America there are sixty species of ants.
- Ants can lift an object fifty times their body weight.
- A tick can grow from a size of a grain of rice to a marble.
- It takes about 2,000 silk worm cocoons to produce one pound of silk.
- There are more kinds of beetles than all plant species.
- Walking sticks have the largest eggs of insects, some eggs can grow larger than eight millimeters.
- Flies use their feet to “taste.”
- When spiders are fried it is said to taste like nuts.
- A spider’s skeleton is located on the outside of its body.
- At the end of a spiders legs are claws.
- There are over 35,000 species of spiders.
- Fireflies belong to the beetle family.
- On an average bees fly thirteen to fifteen miles an hour.
