Facts in "Bugs & Insects" Category
#1759 - Bugs & Insects Fact     2  Fleas can jump more than 200 times their body length. |
| #1760 - Bugs & Insects Fact 0 The social life in ants and termites has been accompanied by an extraordinary royal perk: a 100-fold increase among queen ants in average maximum lifespan, with some queens surviving for almost 30 years. This longevity can be attributed in part to the sheltered and pampered life of the royal egg layer. |
| #1761 - Bugs & Insects Fact 0 Between 20,000 and 60,000 bees live in a single hive. The queen bee lays nearly 1,500 eggs a day and lives for up to 2 years. The drone, whose only job is to mate with the queen bee, has a lifespan of around 24 days—he has no sting. Worker bees - all sterile females - usually work themselves to death within 40 days, collecting pollen and nectar. Worker bees will fly p to 9 miles to find pollen and nectar, flying at speeds as fast as 15 mph. |
| #1762 - Bugs & Insects Fact -1 There are 4,300 known species of ladybugs in the world. |
| #1763 - Bugs & Insects Fact 0 The tarantula spends most of its life within its burrow, which is an 18-inch vertical hole with an inch-wide opening. When male tarantulas are between the ages of 5 to 7 years, they leave the burrow in search of a female, usually in the early fall. This migration actually signals the end of their life cycle. The males mate with as many females as they can, and then they die around mid-November. |
| #1764 - Bugs & Insects Fact 2 Until very recently, no centipede was found that did not have an ODD number of leg pairs. Usually the number varies from 15 to 191 pairs, all odd. No one knows why. However, Chris Kettle, a doctoral student in ecology, recently found a centipede with 48 pairs of legs, an even number. The remarkable discovery was presented to the International Congress of Myriapodology in Poland and featured in the science journal Trends in Genetics. Mr. Kettle suspects a genetic mutation is responsible for the even number of leg pairs. |
| #1765 - Bugs & Insects Fact 2 62 degrees Fahrenheit is the minimum temperature required for a grasshopper to be able to hop. |
| #1766 - Bugs & Insects Fact 2 Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes. |
| #1767 - Bugs & Insects Fact 7 Spiders have transparent blood. |
| #1768 - Bugs & Insects Fact 4 There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are humans on the entire earth. |
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