Insect Facts
Bee Facts
Bees fly an average of 13-15 mph.
Honeybees visit about 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey.
During honey production periods, a bee's life span is about 6 weeks.
Just a single hive contains approximately 40-45,000 bees!
Honeybees are the only insects that produce food for humans.
About 8 pounds of honey is eaten by bees to produce 1 pound of beeswax.
The average hive temperature is 93.5 degrees.
Queens will lay almost 2000 eggs a day at a rate of 5 or 6 a minute. Between 175,000-200,000 eggs are laid per year.
The speed at which honey bees fly is at 15 miles per hour.
The sole purpose of a drone bee is to mate with the queen bee.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
Butterflies get their name from the yellow brimstone butterfly of Europe that is first seen in the early spring or "butter" season.
Female Queen Alexandra butterflies, from Papua and New Guinea, are the largest in the world, some with wingspans larger than 26 cm.
Butterflies and moths are found on all land masses except Antarctica.
The atlas moth, one of the largest silk moths, can be mistaken for a medium-sized bat when flying.
There are over 2,000 species of butterflies in the rainforests of South America.
A butterfly has to have a body temperature greater than 86 degrees to be able to fly.
Ant Facts
Ants don't sleep.
When the only queen ant dies, so does the entire colony, because no new workers are born.
The study of ants is called Myrmecology.
For every human in the world there are one million ants.
The brain of an ant has about 250,000 brain cells.
The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's is.
Ants can lift an object up to fifty times their body-weight and carry it over their heads. They don't do this with their feet, but with their mouths.
Spider Facts
Certain female species of spiders such as the Australian crab spider, sacrifice their bodies as a food source for their offspring.
Some male spiders pluck their cobwebs like a guitar, to attract female spiders.
Fried spiders taste like nuts.
The largest spider ever was the Megarachne which had a diameter of 50 cm. The fossil was found in Argentina.
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 skeleton of a spider is located on the outside of the body.
Spiders usually have eight eyes, but still they cannot see that well.
There are about 34,000 species of spiders.
Fly Facts
Bees fly an average of 13-15 mph.
Honeybees visit about 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey.
During honey production periods, a bee's life span is about 6 weeks.
Just a single hive contains approximately 40-45,000 bees!
Honeybees are the only insects that produce food for humans.
About 8 pounds of honey is eaten by bees to produce 1 pound of beeswax.
Cockroach Facts
Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
German cockroaches can survive for up to one month without food and two weeks without water.
A cockroach can change directions up to 25 times in a second.
If a cockroach breaks a leg it can grow another one.
The earliest fossil cockroach is about 280 million years old – 80 million years older than the first dinosaurs!
Cockroach can live up to nine days without its head.
