1. While gathering food, a bee may fly up to 60 miles in one day.
2. Ticks can grow from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a marble.
3. Ants can lift and carry more than fifty times their own weight.
4. Approximately 2,000 silkworm cocoons are needed to produce one pound of silk.
5. When the droppings of millions of cattle started ruining the land in Australia, dung beetles were imported to reduce the problem.
6. It takes about one hundred Monarch Butterflies to weigh an ounce.
7. Insects have been present for about 350 million years, and humans for only 130,000 years.
8. The queen of a certain termite species can lay 40,000 eggs per day.
9. The term "honeymoon" comes from the Middle Ages, when a newly married couple was provided with enough honey wine to last for the first month of their married life.
10. Beetles account for one quarter of all known species of plants and animals. There are more kinds of beetles than all plants.
11. True flies have only one pair of wings, and sometimes, none at all. A hind pair of "wings" is reduced to balancing organs called halteres.
12. 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.
13. There are nearly as many species of ants (8,800) as there are species of birds (9,000) in the world.
