Explore The Mysteries And Facts Related To The Insect Life That Thrive On Earth.

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A wingless midge known as Belgica antarctica is one of the very few animals that calls antarctica home.

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Insects date back as far as 400 million years.

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Insects make up two third of the entire species of animals on Earth.

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Of the insect species Beetles make up 40 percent with a total of 380,000 species making them the most biodivesrse species.

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There was once an insect known as Maganeuropsis or griffinfly which was a Dragon fly that had a wingspan of 2.5 feet.

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Amongst the Hymenoptera order(ants, bees and wasps), the egg laying queens can live astonishingly for decades. Pogonomyrmex barbatus queens can live for as long as 30 years. This is staggering considering the lifespan of insects is only days or weeks.

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Termite queens can produce up to 40,000 eggs in a single day.

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An insect known as the meadow froghopper can jump 100 times its height.

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The horned dung beetle also known as the bull headed dung beetle can pull 1,141 times its weight.

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There are about 10 quintillion insects in the world or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000.

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Bugs fart. They also release methane and hydrogen as fart but its in small volumes so our noses don't really pick it up.

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Insects and bugs also feel pain. Research has shown that insects felt chronic pain after a head trauma or injury.

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Mosquitoes are the most dangerous animals on the planets killing millions of people yearly.

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Houseflies find sugar with their feet which are 10 million times more sesitive than a human tongue.

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A bee may fly up to 60 miles(96.54km) a day in search of food.

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When the droppings of milllions of cattles started ruining the land in Australia, dung beetles were imported as the solution.

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Blow flies are the first kind of insects attracted to an animal carcass following death.

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The term "honeymoon" comes from the Middle ages, when a newly married couple was provided with enough honey wine to last the first month of their married life.

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Without insects we would die off as they are a key role in pollination.

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Fairyflies are only about 0.0055 inches long.