Insect Fun Facts
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
Slugs have 4 noses.
The leech has 32 brains.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Bees have five eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A bee must visit 4000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
A bee can see the colours green, blue and ultra-violet - but red looks like black.
The silkworm moth has eleven brains.
A dragonfly can spot an insect moving 33 feet away.
Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Ants don't sleep.
The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 100kmh.
The blood of insects is yellow.
Honeybees may collect pollen from as many as 500 flowers, all of the same species - in a single trip.
Ticks can be as small as a grain of rice and grow to be as big as a marble.
Flies have 4000 lenses in each eye.
Houseflies watch each other constantly and follow each other to food sources. That's why there are always so many enjoying the same food.
Spiders have noses on their feet that can pick up the odours of possible prey, predators, or mates.
Adult fleas can live for up to 2 years during which time the female can lay up to 1200 eggs.
Dragonflies have the largest eyes and sharpest eyesight of any insect. Each eye is made up of more than 30 000 separate rod-like units.
Centipedes always have an uneven pairs of walking legs.
A butterfly has to have a body temperature greater than 86 degrees to be able to fly.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.
The praying mantis only has one ear.
Insects are the only invertebrates with wings.
A botfly is known to fly at a speed of 1300 km/hr, which makes it faster then an aircraft.
The brain of a cockroach is located within its body, so even if it were to lose its head, the roach can survive for 9 days before it would finally die of hunger.
An earthworm has the capacity to pull a weight, which exceed 10 times its own body weight.
Fleas are known to cover a distance of 30 cm in a single leap, ie. twenty times the length of their own body.
Tarantulas can survive without food for more than two years.
An ant uses its antenna for touch as well as smell.
An ant has two stomachs, in one stomach it stores food for itself and in the other it stores food that is to be shared with other ants.
Queen ants are provided with wings at birth, they lose these wings after they fly off to start new colonies.
A Tropical Leafcutter ant uses its sharp outer jaw to cut leaves and make them into pulp. The pulp is later used to make fungus gardens. These gardens are looked after and harvested for food.
Worker ants are given the responsibility of taking the rubbish from the nest and putting it into the rubbish dump.
When a worker ant finds a source of food, it leaves a trail of scent to attract other ants in the colony to it.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
Slugs have 4 noses.
The leech has 32 brains.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Bees have five eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A bee must visit 4000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
A bee can see the colours green, blue and ultra-violet - but red looks like black.
The silkworm moth has eleven brains.
A dragonfly can spot an insect moving 33 feet away.
Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Ants don't sleep.
The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 100kmh.
The blood of insects is yellow.
Honeybees may collect pollen from as many as 500 flowers, all of the same species - in a single trip.
Ticks can be as small as a grain of rice and grow to be as big as a marble.
Flies have 4000 lenses in each eye.
Houseflies watch each other constantly and follow each other to food sources. That's why there are always so many enjoying the same food.
Spiders have noses on their feet that can pick up the odours of possible prey, predators, or mates.
Adult fleas can live for up to 2 years during which time the female can lay up to 1200 eggs.
Dragonflies have the largest eyes and sharpest eyesight of any insect. Each eye is made up of more than 30 000 separate rod-like units.
Centipedes always have an uneven pairs of walking legs.
A butterfly has to have a body temperature greater than 86 degrees to be able to fly.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.
The praying mantis only has one ear.
Insects are the only invertebrates with wings.
A botfly is known to fly at a speed of 1300 km/hr, which makes it faster then an aircraft.
The brain of a cockroach is located within its body, so even if it were to lose its head, the roach can survive for 9 days before it would finally die of hunger.
An earthworm has the capacity to pull a weight, which exceed 10 times its own body weight.
Fleas are known to cover a distance of 30 cm in a single leap, ie. twenty times the length of their own body.
Tarantulas can survive without food for more than two years.
An ant uses its antenna for touch as well as smell.
An ant has two stomachs, in one stomach it stores food for itself and in the other it stores food that is to be shared with other ants.
Queen ants are provided with wings at birth, they lose these wings after they fly off to start new colonies.
A Tropical Leafcutter ant uses its sharp outer jaw to cut leaves and make them into pulp. The pulp is later used to make fungus gardens. These gardens are looked after and harvested for food.
Worker ants are given the responsibility of taking the rubbish from the nest and putting it into the rubbish dump.
When a worker ant finds a source of food, it leaves a trail of scent to attract other ants in the colony to it.
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