A lot of insects are a good source of protein so in several countries they are a delicacy.
Do you or your kids have asthma? Proteins from the cockroaches’ saliva, droppings, and shed insect body parts can trigger asthma symptoms.
Cockroaches are capable of transmitting organisms which cause diseases such as food poisoning, dysentery, and diarrhea.
A female roach and her offspring can produce up to 30,000 roaches in 1 year.
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth.
Ants stay awake all their life. They never sleep!
Mosquitoes feet are irritated by citronella.
There are approximately 1 million known species of insects in the world.
Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the Earth’s food crop.
There are nearly 5,000 different kinds of ladybugs worldwide and 400 which live in North America.
Bed bugs prefer to hide in cracks and crevices during the daytime and come out to feed on the host’s blood at night, usually while the host is sleeping.
Common diseases such typhoid fever, dysentery and cholera are usually associated with a housefly.
A flea can leap 800 times farther than its body length. It can jump 130 times its own height.
An ant can lift 50 times its own weight. A honey bee can lift 300 times its own weight.
When male fruit flies lose a fight, they get so depressed that they stop trying to fight other flies, even if they know they can win.
Ladybugs make a chemical that smells and tastes terrible so that birds and other predators won’t eat them.
The Assassin Bug wears its victims bodies as armor.
For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter Ants have been used to close wounds in India, Asia and South America.
Fire ants link together to form a living, unsinkable raft during floods.
Some wood beetles can emerge from wood where they live after as long as 40 years.
Male water striders blackmail females into having sex by threatening to call predators.
If you draw a line with chalk around some ants, they won’t cross it. Calcium Carbonate in chalk will puncture their skin and kill them with dehydration.
There is only one insect that can turn its head — the praying mantis.
Ants conduct war in ways similar to humans, even using advanced strategies like reconnaissance and sending expendable ants to the front line as to preserve the stronger ones.
Wasp venom contains a chemical that alerts other wasps to join in and sting the victim.
Only male fireflies can fly.
All scorpions glow under black (ultraviolet) light.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
There are more than 300,000 species of beetles, making them the largest order of insects in the world.
Silverfish are one of the oldest insects in the world. They have inhabited this planet for over 400 million years. To put this into perspective they were on the earth 100 million years before dinosaurs existed.
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