*Insects and Bugs' Facts*

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↬ _Insects are a class of invertebrates within the arthropod phylum that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body, three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae. Scientific name: Insecta_

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�� *Night butterflies have ears on their wings so they can avoid bats.*

�� *Monarch caterpillars shed their skin four times before they become a chrysalis, growing over 2700 times their original size.*

�� *There may be as many as 3,000 different kinds of insects, more than all the other animal and plant species combined.*

�� *Of the huge numbers of insects, only a tiny amount, one percent, are harmful to humans.* *Most insects are harmless or actually beneficial.For example, without bees to pollinate flowers, plants would not have a way of reproducing and we wouldn’t have anything to eat!*

�� *Locusts can eat their own weight in food in a day. A person eats his own body weight in about half a year.*

�� *The earliest fossil cockroach is about 280 million years old, 80 million years older than the first dinosaurs!*

�� *The desert locust is the world’s most destructive insect. It can eat it’s own weight in food every day.*

�� *Large swarms can gobble up to 20,000 tons of grain and plants in a day.*

�� *The honeybee has to travel an average of 43,000 miles to collect enough nectar to make a pound of honey!*

�� *Out of every 1,000 Mosquitos, one female carries a disease that could be fatal to humans.*

�� *Honeybees have hair on their eyes.*

�� *The average housefly lives for one month.*

�� *The only one insect that can turn its head is the praying mantis.*

�� *A slug has four noses.*

�� *Some male spiders pluck their cobwebs like a guitar, to attract female spiders.*

�� *A mosquito flaps its wings 500 times a second.*

�� *Only male crickets can chirp.*

�� *Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!*

�� *About 80% of the Earth’s animals are insects!*

�� *The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts.*

�� *Dragonflies can fly up to 50 miles per hour.*

�� *The praying mantis is the only insect that can look behind its shoulders.*

�� *One kind of insect called a spittlebug, lays its eggs in a big nest of saliva bubbles. I guess no predator would look for a meal in there!*

�� *A snail can sleep for 3 years straight!*

�� *The heaviest insect in the world weights 2.5 ounces.*

�� *A cockroach can live for up to 3 weeks without its head!*

�� *A butterfly has its taste receptors in its feet!*

�� *The mayfly only lives for 8 hours!*

�� *The female black widow’s poison is 15 times deadlier than a rattlesnake’s!*

�� *There are worms in Australia that are over 4 Feet Long!*

�� *The weight of all the termites in the world outweigh the weight of all humans 10 to 1!*