Skittles and jellybeans contain crushed insect cocoons which are used to coat the candies to give them that special shine.
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Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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When dragonflies mate, their tails form a love heart.
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Ants tend to survive in a microwave because they find the coolest spot and wait!
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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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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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