The venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic than the venom of a large scorpion.
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Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk!
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Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
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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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A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn in a day.
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The average housefly lives only two weeks.
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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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Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
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The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
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The average housefly weighs 10 to 15 millionths of a pound.
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The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
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Ants don't sleep
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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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Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.
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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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Only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood.
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Only male fireflies can fly.
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There are some species of snails that are extremely venomous.
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Dragonflies can travel up to 60 mph.
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The only food that cockroaches wont eat are Cucumbers!
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Frogs sometimes eat enough fireflies that they themselves glow.
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Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, blondes to brunettes.
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
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The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away!
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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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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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The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
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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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There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings in the world.
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