Insects are efficient and compassionate, ruthless and amazingly intelligent at the same time. Lonesome Polecat, our resident insect expert, has come up with a few bug facts are very, very odd.
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Top 10 Hard to Believe Facts About Insects
Certain types of grasshoppers and crickets have their ears on their front legs.
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Only three kinds of animals fight battles in formations: humans, crows and ants.
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There are wasp species that specialize in hunting other dangerous predators ( Praying Mantis, Black-bellied Tarantula).
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Mosquitoes ( the disease-carrying ones) have killed more human beings than all the wars in history combined.
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Houseflies can taste with their feet ( they have taste buds on them).
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Some wasps sleep ( and even hibernate for months) while hanging by their teeth.
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African termite mounds can be 40 feet high and use an intricate system of ventilation shafts to control the temperature inside.
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Indian moon moths are able to smell the pheromones of a potential mate over 6 miles away.
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Termite queens will lay up to 30,000 eggs a day, and they live for many years.
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Larvae of one type of midge ( a tiny mosquitoe-like insect) can survive for 3 days in liquid nitrogen. The temperature of liquid nitrogen is -321 degrees Fahrenheit.
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photo:GreenputtyTop 10 Hard to Believe Facts About Insects
Certain types of grasshoppers and crickets have their ears on their front legs.
photo: myrioramaOnly three kinds of animals fight battles in formations: humans, crows and ants.
photo: Kamran AhmedThere are wasp species that specialize in hunting other dangerous predators ( Praying Mantis, Black-bellied Tarantula).
photo: ashepherdMosquitoes ( the disease-carrying ones) have killed more human beings than all the wars in history combined.
photo: smcannHouseflies can taste with their feet ( they have taste buds on them).
photo: coffee_beeSome wasps sleep ( and even hibernate for months) while hanging by their teeth.
photo: myrioramaAfrican termite mounds can be 40 feet high and use an intricate system of ventilation shafts to control the temperature inside.
photo: cliff1066Indian moon moths are able to smell the pheromones of a potential mate over 6 miles away.
photo: goldenorfeTermite queens will lay up to 30,000 eggs a day, and they live for many years.
photo: J.N. StuartLarvae of one type of midge ( a tiny mosquitoe-like insect) can survive for 3 days in liquid nitrogen. The temperature of liquid nitrogen is -321 degrees Fahrenheit.
photo: nebarnix
