Houseflies find sugar with their feet, which are 10 million times more sensitive than human tongues.
Ants can lift and carry more than 50 times there own weight.
Insects have been present for 350 million years, and humans for only 130,000 years.
Beetles account for one quarter of all known species of plants and animals. There are more kinds of beetles than all plants.
Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
There are nearly as many species of ants (8,800) as there are species of birds (9,000) in the world.
A particular Hawk Moth caterpillar from Brazil, when alarmed, raises its head and inflates its thorax, causing it to look like the head of a snake.
A cockroach can live for up to 9 days without a head, it dies of starvation.
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.
The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth.
There are more than 900,000 known species of insects in the world.
Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
Insects would outweigh all animals if put on a scale.
For every human there are about 1 million ants.
The African Goliath Beetle is one of the heaviest insects and can weigh up to 3.4 oz.
The longest insect is the Pharnacia serritypes, the females can be over 36 cm in length.
Worldwide, it is estimated that there are 30 million different species of insects, making up to almost 90% of all living things on the planet.
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'.
On average, humans are more afraid of spiders than death.
The average human eats 8 spiders while asleep in there lifetime.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter ants have been used to close wounds in India, Asia, and South America.
The largest known spider is the Goliath Bird eater from South America which is the size of a dinner plate.
An ant can survive underwater for up to two days.
The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its head is the ant.
Butterflys cannot fly if there body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
Out of the 4000 known species of cockroach only 20 types are classified as pests.
Scorpions can live for more than a year without eating.
You will never get bit by a male mosquito. Only the females bite.
Lightningbugs or Fireflies are not true bugs or flies. They are actually beetles.
Beetles are one of the most popular pets in Japan and can be bought in many department stores.
Among the largest moths are the Atlas moths with a wing span of over 20cm.
There are about 800 species of Tarantula none of which are deadly to people.
Tarantual wasps paralyze tarantulas and lay a single egg on the still living spider; when the egg hatches, the wasp larva has fresh food.
Of the 35,000 species of spiders, only 27 species are known to have caused human fatalities.
Of the 35,000 species of spiders, only 27 species are known to have caused human fatalities.
A leaf-cutter ant queen mates only once - just before establishing a new colony. She can then keep the sperm viable for up to 15 years and produce as many as 300 million offspring.
Some mosquitoes can beat their wings 600 times a second. A midge fly holds the record, with a wing beat of 1046 times a second.
The bite from a black widow spider is not automatically fatal, in fact, less than 1% of all people bitten by this spider run the risk of dying, and most of them are saved with the use of antivenin.
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees.
Katydids have ears in their front legs.
The strongest creature in the world is the rhinoceros beetle. It can lift 850 times its own weight.
The Artic Tern flies from the North Pole to the South Pole and then back again to spend summer in each place.
A house fly lives for only 14 days.
Fish and insects don't have eyelids, instead they have a hard lens protecting there eye.
