Placing alcohol on a scorpion's back will make it go crazy and fatally sting itself.
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Ants tend to survive in a microwave because they find the coolest spot and wait!
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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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Skittles and jellybeans contain crushed insect cocoons which are used to coat the candies to give them that special shine.
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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 pea aphid insect explodes itself thereby sacrificing its life to protect its relatives from predators.
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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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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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