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True flies have just one main pair of wings. Members of this group are: houseflies, gnats, horseflies, fruitflies, craneflies, dungflies, bluebottles and midges.

True worms are divided into segments or rings and have tube shaped bodies.

Unlike marauder ants, the workers of many ant species are solitary hunters.

Unlike most other ant species, the Argentine ant forms multi-queen colonies.

Up to 80,000 bees live in a hive.

Velvet ants get their name from the appearance of the females, which look like hairy ants. Actually, they are not true ants, but wingless wasps.

Very few species of fleas parasitize birds. Of the 1,800 known species of fleas in the world, only about 100 have been reported on birds.

When a butterfly is at rest, it holds its wings vertically above its back. A moth at rest holds its wings flat.

When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone.

When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone.

When a worker bee is between 1 and 2 days old, it has the job of cleaning the hive's cells and keeping the brood warm. At age 3 days, the bee graduated to the job of feeding the older larvae.

When female wasps return to the colony after foraging, they may initiate aggressive encounters with males and stuff them head first into empty nest cells. Cornell University researchers who observed the behavior call it "male-stuffing," and believe it contributes to the colony's fitness by making more food available to larvae.

While all spiders can make silk, not all spiders make webs.

While many arachnids rely on webs or trap doors to catch prey, the bird-eating spider rushes straight at anything that moves. The hairy, venomous creature with a leg span that reaches 10 inches can eat grounded birds or small rodents.

A dragonfly can fly 25 miles per hour.

A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times, and a tiny gnat 1,000 times.

A flea is capable of jumping 13 inches in a single leap. In human terms, this would be equivalent to a person leaping 700 feet in one bound.

A fly can react to something it sees and change direction in 30 milliseconds.

A fly stuck in a spider web can escape in about five seconds if the spider doesn't get to it first.

A fly's eye has more than 4,000 lenses.

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