Fun Facts – Insects and Bugs II
- Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
- Ants have the largest brain of any insect.
- The average housefly lives for one month.
- Dragonflies can fly up to 50 miles per hour.
- About 80% of the Earth’s animals are insects.
- The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts.
- Cockroaches have their skeletons on the outside of their bodies.
- Some male spiders pluck their cobwebs like a guitar, to attract female spiders.
- An Ant’s jaws open sideways like scissors and squeeze the juice out of their prey.
- Out of every 1,000 Mosquitoes, one female carries a disease that could be fatal to humans.
- An Ant has two stomachs: one to feed itself and the second one is used to feed other ants.