| A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn in a day. |
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| Anteaters prefer termites to ants. |
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| Ants don't sleep |
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| Butterflies taste with their feet. |
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| Dragonflies can travel up to 60 mph. |
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| Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk! |
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| Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death. |
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| Frogs sometimes eat enough fireflies that they themselves glow. |
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| It is possible for a scorpion to sting itself to death as they are not immune to their own poison! |
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| Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight. This would be like an adult person lifting two heavy cars full of people. |
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| Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color. |
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| Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, blondes to brunettes. |
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| Only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood. |
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| Only male fireflies can fly. |
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| Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music. |
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| The average housefly lives only two weeks. |
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| The average housefly weighs 10 to 15 millionths of a pound. |
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| The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies. |
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| The Giant South African Earthworm can grow up to 22 feet long and 1 inch in thick. |
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| The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs! |
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| The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away! |
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| The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. |
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| The only food that cockroaches wont eat are Cucumbers! |
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| The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head! |
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| The venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic than the venom of a large scorpion. |
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| The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1! |
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| There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings in the world. |
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| There are over a million described species of insects. Some people estimate there are actually between 15 and 30 million species. |
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| There are some species of snails that are extremely venomous. |
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