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There are 5 million different species of insects in the world. The insect population of the world is at least 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. The weight of the world's insect population exceeds that of humankind by a factor of twelve.

There are 600 known species of scorpion.

There are 80 cricket species in Florida.

There are about 2,500 different species of horsefly in the world.

There are earthworms as short as one twenty-fifth of an inch and earthworms as long as 11 feet. The earthworm has no lungs; it breathes through its skin. Some earthworms have as many as ten hearts.

There are eighteen species of yellowjackets in North America.

There are locusts that have an adult lifespan of only a few weeks, after having lived in the ground as grubs for 15 years.

There are more beetles on Earth than any other living creature. The number of species alone is nearly a quarter-million.

There are more different kinds of insects in existence today than the total of all types of other animals put together.

There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire Earth.

There are more than 100,000 different species of butterflies.

There are more than 80,000 known species of ants.

There are one-celled creatures that have the properties of both plants and animals. An example is the flagellate Euglena, which propels itself through the water like an animal by means of undulating snakelike appendages. Also, it contains chlorophyll, a substance as characteristic of plants as blood is of animals.

There are over 2,000 species of fleas. The most common domestic flea is the cat flea.

There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas. Essential to the balance of nature, spiders annually consume a hundred times their number in insects.

There really are such thing as "cooties." Though most people believe that "cooties" is just a nonsense word used by children to describe unpleasant insects, cooties are, in fact, a kind of body lice.

Tiny insects called aphids can reproduce parthenogenetically. Female eggs can develop without the fertilizing action of the sperm.

To keep bugs out of flour, it is recommended to place a couple of bay leaves in the container.

To make a one-pound comb of honey, bees must collect nectar from about two million flowers.

To sting, a bee uses 22 muscles.

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