Insect Facts

    25 facts tagged with Insect Facts

    Cuddle Death
    Cuddle Death
    Once the Queen is deemed unfit to serve due to old age or disease, worker bees form a tight cluster around her until she dies from overheating, a process known as "cuddle death."
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    Ant Graveyard
    Ant Graveyard
    Ants have graveyards.
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    Tree Lobster
    Tree Lobster
    The Tree Lobster, once thought to be extinct, is an insect that can grow to the size of a human hand, and it can only be found on a small island of rock that is Ball's Pyramid, Australia.
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    Drunk Ants
    Drunk Ants
    If an ant is drunk, a fellow comrade will carry him back to the nest to sleep off the alcohol.
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    The Firefly Is Not a Fly
    The firefly is not actually a fly, but a beetle.
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    The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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    Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
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    Skittles and jellybeans contain crushed insect cocoons which are used to coat the candies to give them that special shine.
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