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Insects TriviaThis is a subcategory of Animals Showing page 4 of 20 Moths have no stomach. The male of one species of insect related to the praying mantis can only reproduce after the female has bitten off his head. Honeybees navigate using the sun as a compass, even when it is hidden behind clouds - they find it via the polarization of ultraviolet light from areas of blue sky. The katydid has supersonic hearing. It can hear sounds up to 4-5,000 vibrations per second. Little Miss Muffet was arachnaphobic. A typical Mayfly only lives one day. The silkworm moth has lost the ability of flight due to domestication. The largest insect in the world, the meganeuron, a prehistoric dragonfly, measured 29 inches from wingtip to wingtip. Out of 20000 species of bees, only 4 make honey. A dragonfly's penis is shovel-shaped at the end, to scoop a rival male's sperm out of the female it's impregnating. A swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska on July 20-30, 1874 covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles. The swarm must have contained at least 12.5 trillion insects, weighing about 27.5 million tons. Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches. Insects make up two thirds of known species. A bee has four wings. 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 berry butterflies (hypsa monycha) of Singapore, in their caterpillar stage, group around the top of a stem to foil predatory birds by imitating the appearance of a poisonous berry. Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front. Crickets hear through their knees. In relation to its size, the ordinary house spider is eight times faster than an Olympic sprinter. There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in it's body to kill six cats.
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