Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
5
Flies are deaf.
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Skittles and jellybeans contain crushed insect cocoons which are used to coat the candies to give them that special shine.
9
Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
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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.
8
It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
217
The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
8
When a male honey bee climaxes during sex, his testicles explode and then he dies.
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