Facts About Insects & Bugs

🦋. Night butterflies have ears on their wings so they can avoid bats.



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🐛. Monarch caterpillars shed their skin 4 times before they become a chrysalis, growing over 2700 times their original size.

🐜. There may be as many as 3,000 different kinds of insects— more than all the other animal and plant species combined.

🐌. Locusts can eat their own weight in food in a day. A person eats his own body weight in about half a year.

🪳. The earliest fossil cockroach is about 280 million years old â€" 80 million years older than the first dinosaurs.

🦂. The desert locust is the world's most destructive insect. It can eat it's own weight in food every day. Large swarms can gobble up to 20,000 tons of grain and plants in a day.

🐝. The honeybee has to travel an average of 43,000 miles to collect enough nectar to make a pound of honey.

🦟. Out of every 1,000 mosquitos, one female carries a disease that could be fetal to humans.

🐝. Of the huge numbers of insects, only a tiny amount, 1% percent, are harmful to humans. Most insects are harmless or actually beneficial. For example, without bees to pollinate flowers, plants would not have a way of reproducing and we wouldn't have anything to eat.