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The Mexican fishing spider will attach itself to a small leaf and float across a pond as if on a raft. From this vantage point, it hunts its prey of large tadpoles and small fish.

The millipede is a vegetarian.

The monarch butterfly can discern tastes 12,000 times more subtle than those perceivable by human taste buds.

The natural diet of lady beetles consists of soft-bodied insects, such as aphids, spider mites, and young caterpillars. Adults can consume up to 100 aphids a day.

The nephila spider of India spins its webs with strands that are longer than 20 feet long.

The official state insect of the state of Washington is the blue darner dragonfly.

The praying mantis eats nothing but live food, predominantly insects. Its prey is taken only from flowers, leaves, bark, or the ground — never while the potential victim is in flight. Surprisingly, if quick and lucky, it will also consume and eat a hummingbird.

The praying mantis is the official state insect of Connecticut.

The reproductive cycle of some worms is in phase with the Moon. The sex organs of adult pallolo worms mature once a year at about the same time of day, on a day when the Moon is in its last quarter.

The shrill sound produced by crickets, cicadas, and other insects is referred to as stridulation.

The silkworm is actually the caterpillar of the mulberry silk moth. Silkworms have been bred in China for at least 2,000 years.

The swallowtail butterfly is the official state insect of Oregon.

The tiny houseflies so often encountered are not, contrary to popular belief, "baby flies." Baby flies are maggots. The small houseflies are adults of a different species of the ordinary housefly.

The total weight of insects on earth is 12 times the weight of all people.

The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent than that of a rattlesnake.

The venom of the Africanized honeybee is no more toxic than that of the common honeybee's.

The world's smallest butterfly is the Pygmy Blue. Its wingspan ranges between three-eighths to one-half inch in length.

There are 142,000 recognized species of moths, and thousands more yet to be discovered.

There are 4,000 species of earthworms alive on Earth.

There are 4,300 known species of ladybug in the world.

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