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Living scorpions reflect ultraviolet light and can glow with an eerie greenish colour when exposed to UV light, no matter what colour they appear under normal lighting conditions.
For every person on the earth, there are two hundred million insects. More insects can be found in only ten square feet of rainforest than there are people in Manhattan. One square mile of rural land can hold more insects than there are human beings on Earth
The atlas moth, one of the largest silk moths, can be mistaken for a medium-sized bat when flying.
The female yellow jacket wasp lays both fertilized and unfertilized eggs. Female workers develop from the fertilized egg and male drones develop from the unfertilized egg.
Butterflies and moths are found on all land masses except Antarctica.
During its lifetime, a worker bee will only produce about one-twelfth of a teaspoon of honey.
The Department of Health and Human Services has set standards regarding how many insect parts are food can contain, called the Food Defect Action Levels. Chocolate can have up to eight insect fragments per hundred grams, while peanut butter can have only sixty fragments. Meanwhile, wheat flour can have 150 fragments per hundred grams and paprika can have 300 fragments.
Praying mantids are among the few insects which can rotate their heads so they can literally look over their shoulders, making them extremely effective predators.
The metallic-coloured wing covers of some beetles are used for jewelry.
Tarantula wasps paralyze tarantulas and lay a single egg on the still living spider; when the egg hatches, the wasp larva has fresh food.
Each year the average person will swallow several insects while they are sleeping. During the average lifetime, a person consumes about seventy insects and ten spiders during their sleep.
Female Queen Alexandra butterflies, from Papua and New Guinea, are the largest in the world, some with wingspans larger than 26 cm.
There are more than 300,000 species of beetles, making them the largest order of insects in the world.
The Jungle Nymph Stick is one of the heaviest insects. In Malaysia they are often kept by people who feed them guava leaves and use the droppings to make tea.
The eggs of walking stick insects are among the largest in the insect world. Some eggs are more than eight millimetres long.
Flies can "taste" with their feet.
Entomologists are estimating that there are between 5 million and 150 million species of insects on earth of which only one million are known to science.
The fastest known insect is a dragon fly that has been clocked at 58 kilometres an hour.
The longest insect is a walking stick that can reach a length of 33 centimetres.
The heaviest insect in the world is the Goliath beetle from Africa. A big male can weigh up to 100 grams.
A cockroach can live up to nine days without feeding, or without its head.
A leaf-cutter ant queen mates only once - just before establishing a new colony. She can then keep the sperm viable for up to 15 years and produce as many as 300 million offspring.
Of the 35,000 species of spiders, only 27 species are known to have caused human fatalities.
A flea can jump 130 times its own height.
Some mosquitoes can beat their wings 600 times a second. A midge fly holds the record, with a wing beat of 1046 times a second.
Mosquitoes are responsible causing more human deaths worldwide than any other animal-almost two million annually. They do this by transmitting diseases such as the West Nile virus, malaria, and Dengue fever. Second to this is the tsetse fly, which kills about 66,000 people annually.
The bite from a black widow spider is not always fatal. In fact, less than 1% of all people bitten by this spider run the risk of dying, and most of them are saved with the use of antivenom.
The average bed contains between two million to six million dust mites.
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