Insects

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  • A snail can sleep for three years.


  • The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.


  • Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cannot find food.


  • A slug has four noses.


  • An ant can detect movement through five centimeters of earth.


  • A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.


  • Crickets hear through their knees.


  • Most spiders belong to the orb weaver spider family, Family Aranidae. This is pronounced "A Rainy Day."


  • Cockroaches' favorite food is the glue on envelopes and on the back of postage stamps


  • Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sidewards, like a scissor, to extract the juices from the food.


  • There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.


  • The Madagascan Hissing Cockroach is one of the few insects who give birth to live young, rather than laying eggs.


  • The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.


  • The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.


  • The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.