Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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The Jewel Wasp injects a drug into a cockroach’s brain, turns it into a zombie, rides it like a horse back to its burrow, and then lets its hatched larvae feed on the cockroaches body from the inside.
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Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
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Ants tend to survive in a microwave because they find the coolest spot and wait!
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Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
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Flies are deaf.
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