Fun Facts About Bugs

• Houseflies find sugar with their feet, which are 10 million times more sensitive than human tongues.
   

• Ticks can grow from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a marble.
   

• Approximately 2,000 silkworm cocoons are needed to produce one pound of silk.
   

• While gathering food, a bee may fly up to 60 miles in one day.
   

• Ants can lift and carry more than 50 times their own weight.
   

• Mexican jumping beans, sometimes sold commercially, actually have a caterpillar of a bean moth inside.
   

• It takes about one hundred Monarch Butterflies to weight an ounce.
   

• When the dropping of millions of cattle starting ruining the land in Australia, dung beetles were imported to
  reduce the problem.
   

• Wasps feeding on fermenting juice have been known to get "drunk" and pass out
   

• The queen of a certain termite species can lay 40,000 eggs per day.
   

• Honeybees have to make about ten million trips to collect enough nectar for production of one pound of honey.
   

• Insects have been present for about 350 million years, and humans for only 130,000 years.