Fun Fact Friday – Mosquitoes

Fun Fact Friday – Mosquitoes Bats eat mosquitoes. Dark clothing attracts mosquitoes. West Nile virus came to the U.S. in 1999. Bacteria can be used to kill mosquito larvae. The two main mosquito predators are fish and dragonflies. A full moon increased mosquito...

Fun Fact Friday – Insects and Bugs IV

Fun Fact Friday – Insects and Bugs IV Only male crickets can chirp. A butterfly has its taste receptors in its feet. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day. The praying mantis is the only insect that can look behind its shoulders. The weight of all the...

Fun Fact Friday – Insects and Bugs III

Fun Facts – Insects and Bugs III • A slug has four noses. • The mayfly only lives for 8 hours. • A snail can sleep for 3 years straight. • A mosquito flaps its wings 500 times a second. • A cockroach can live for up to 3 weeks without its head. • Night...

Fun Fact Friday – Insects and Bugs II

Fun Facts – Insects and Bugs II Honeybees have hair on their eyes. Ants have the largest brain of any insect. The average housefly lives for one month. Dragonflies can fly up to 50 miles per hour. About 80% of the Earth’s animals are insects. The common garden...

Fun Facts – Insects and Bugs

Fun Facts – Insects and Bugs I While gathering food, a bee may fly up to 60 miles in one day. Ants can lift and carry more than fifty times their own weight. The queen of a certain termite species can lay 40,000 eggs per day. Ticks can grow from the size of a...