FACTS

Insects Facts

A flea can jump up to eight inches.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. They spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so that they don’t know you’re there.
A honey bee has to gather pollen from two million flowers to make one pound of honey.
The brain of an ant has about 2,50,000 brain cells.
There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.
A housefly can ingest only liquid food.
Insect do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by them rapidly moving their wings.
Spiders have organs for spinning silk, known as spinnerets.
When the only queen bee in a hive dies, the entire colony dies as well.
A cockroach can change directions up to 25 times in a second.
Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
The dragonfly has not changed over the last 300 million years.
A single ant colony can include over 5 million busy members, soldiers and workers
Some moths and butterflies can detect sweetness when the ratio is 1 to 300,000.
A honeybee kills more people each year worldwide than all the venomous snakes combined.
Moths are not really attracted to light. Moths fly towards the blackest point which is behind the light.
The most dangerous insect in the world is the housefly. It carries and transmits more diseases than any other animal in the world.
Atlas moths wings look like snakes, an evolutionary gift that keeps them safe from predators.