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Female fireflies typically cannot fly.

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Caterpillars have more than twice as many muscles as humans do.

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Mosquitoes must dilute the blood of their victim with their saliva before they can drink it. It is the saliva that causes the bite to itch

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You will never get bit by a male mosquito. Only the females bite!

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Scorpions can live for more than a year without eating.

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Out of the 4000 known species of cockroach only 20 types are classified as pests.

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A Cockroach can live for up to 9 days without its head and dies only because of starvation.

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The brain of a Cockroach is located within its body not its head

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The strongest creature in the world is the Rhinoceros Beetle. It can lift 850 times its own weight.

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Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.

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A Leaf-cutter Ant queen mates once, keeps the sperm viable for up to 15 years and produces as up to 300 million offspring.

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Honeybees may collect pollen from as many as 500 flowers, all of the same species – in a single trip.

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The world’s smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian Parasitic Wasp, is smaller than the eye of a Housefly.

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Fish and insects don’t have eyelids, instead, they have a hard lens protecting there eye.

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Insects would outweigh all other animals by weight.

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extinct insect back to life
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Secret to a long life?
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Cockroaches bleed white blood

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Bees cannot recognize the color red.

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Katydids have ears in their front legs.