Amazing Bugs…

• Ants don't sleep.
• A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
• The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
• Ants are social insects and live in colonies which may have as many as 500,000 individuals.
• Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves.
• Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
• Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet.
• No two spider webs are the same.
• Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.
• The honeybee kills more people world-wide than all the poisonous snakes combined.
• The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent than that of a rattlesnake.
• The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito. Mosquitoes are the common vector for malaria, encephalitis, yellow fever and dengue fever.
• There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth.
• When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone.
• In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.
• Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
• When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source.
• Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes. Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
• You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas.