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The ichneumon fly has a sense of smell so keen that it can locate a caterpillar deep inside a tree trunk.

The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito.

The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.

The ant has the largest brain in the animal kingdom, in proportion to its size.

The are more different kinds of insects on existence today than the total of all kinds of other animals put together.

"Formication" is a hallucination that bugs or snakes are crawling on or under the skin, and is common to amphetamine and cocaine users. This hallucination is also referred to as "crank bugs."

Bombyx mori, a silkworm moth, has been cultivated for so long that it can no longer exist without human care. Because it has been domesticated, it has lost the ability to fly.

Drosophila, the small fruit fly, has been warmly received by the scientific community, mainly owing to the giant-sized chromosomes possessed by the cells of its salivary glands. These chromosomes, which can stretch to more than a mile long when unraveled, allow scientists to study DNA using only a sheet of white paper and a bright table lamp.

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

A bee has five eyes, two large compound eyes on either side of its head, and three ocelli (primitive eyes) on top of its head to detect light intensity.

A bumble bee flaps its wings 160 beats per second.

A cockroach's heart is nothing but a simple tube with valves. The tube can pump blood backwards and forwards in the insect. The heart can even stop moving, apparently without harming the roach.

A colony of white-footed ants varies in size from 400,000 to over 1 million individuals.

A common housefly is faster--in one sense--than a jet airplane. The fly moves 300 times its body length in one second, while the jet, at the speed of sound, travels 100 times its body length in one second.

A cricket an inch long has a chirp that is audible for nearly a mile.

The Asian grasshopper can jump up to 15 feet, a distance the length of 18 of their 10-inch bodies.

The average airspeed of the common housefly is 4.5 miles per hour. A housefly beats its wings about 20,000 times per minute.

The average bee can travel up to 11 miles per hour.

The average house fly lives only two weeks.

The average life expectancy of a queen bee is 6 years, a worker bee, 6 months, and a drone, just 8 weeks.

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