Skittles and jellybeans contain crushed insect cocoons which are used to coat the candies to give them that special shine.
9
Flies are deaf.
379
The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
8
The pea aphid insect explodes itself thereby sacrificing its life to protect its relatives from predators.
3
Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
328
Placing alcohol on a scorpion's back will make it go crazy and fatally sting itself.
1k
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
110
It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
217