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Spiders have transparent blood.

There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are humans on the entire earth.

A spiders web is made of two types of silk, one sticky and the other not. The spider begins the web with the non sticky silk and forms the "spokes". After the frame is constructed and secure, the spider goes back with the sticky silk and completes the web design we are so familiar with, connecting spoke to spoke. They will also add rows connecting the spokes to allow them access for web maintenance. Spend time watching a spider and you will see that they painstakingly avoid the sticky silk and walk on the spokes. Should the spider be startled and walk in the sticky silk it will affix to the spider the same as it would you or any thing else. Spiders recycle their webbing, so a spider that gets stuck in its own web may eat its way out.

Some crickets burrow megaphone-like tunnels that help transport the sound of their chirps as far as 2,000 feet away.

A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar.

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

A housefly can transport germs as far as 15 miles away from the original source of contamination.

A mature, well-established termite colony with as many as 60,000 members will eat only about one-fifth of an ounce of wood a day.

The silkworm's silk comes out of its mouth as a thread of gooey liquid, so that nice silk blouse you spent a fortune on is really just worm spit.

Some spiders have as many as eight eyes.

The monarch butterfly's sense of taste is about 12,000 times more sensitive than a human's.

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the best time to spray household insects is 4:00 p.m. Insects are most vulnerable at this time.

After mating, the female black widow spider turns on her partner and devours him. The female may dispatch as many as twenty-five suitors a day in this manner.

An ant can survive for up to two weeks underwater.

Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

On an average day, a queen bee lays about 1,500 eggs.

Bees have been known to cure rheumatism.

A mosquito has 47 teeth.

Tarantulas do not use muscles to move their legs. They control the amount of blood pumped into them to extend and retract their legs.

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