Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect - typically up to 30 years. Western harvester ant queens can live up to 40 years!
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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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Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
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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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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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The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
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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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