A cockroach can live for up to a week without a head.
A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
Amazon ants (red ants found in the western U.S.) steal the larvae of other ants to keep as slaves. The slave ants build homes for and feed the Amazon ants, who cannot do anything but fight. They depend completely on their slaves for survival.
Ants are social insects and live in colonies which may have as many as 500,000 individuals.
Ants don't sleep.
Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves.
Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the Earth's food crop.
In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.
Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet.
Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
No two spider webs are the same.
Only female mosquitoes bite. Females need the protein from blood to produce their eggs.
Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.
The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
The disease-carrying mosquito, delivering encephalitis, the West Nile virus, malaria, and Dengue fever, is by far the deadliest beast in the animal world. The World Health Organization says mosquitos cause more than 2 million deaths a year worldwide. Another insect,
The honeybee kills more people world-wide than all the poisonous snakes combined.
The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
The largest insect egg belongs to the Malaysian jungle nymph, a sticklike insect, and measures about 1.3 centimeters long - larger than a peanut! (Some insects, mainly mantises and cockroaches, lay egg cases that are larger, but they contain about 200 individual eggs.)
The tsetse fly kills another 66,000 people annually.
The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent than that of a rattlesnake.
The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth.
There are more than 900,000 known species of insects in the world.
When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone.
When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source.
Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas.
A Brown Recluse spider can live for well over a month in a jar with no additional air, food, or water, but dies real quickly when you put the jar in direct sunlight.
That's weird, Tico. Is it allergic to sunlight?
Greece's national anthem has 158 verses.
There are approximately 320,000 icebergs in the world.
Ostriches live about 75 years and can reproduce for 50 years.
Spiders never spin webs in structures made of chestnut wood. That is why so many European chateaux were built with chestnut beams - that would explain why chesnuts on your floor will keep out spiders.
A bird's eye takes up about 50 percent of its head, our eyes take up about 5 percent of our head. To be comparable to a bird's eyes, our eyes would have to be the size of baseballs.
Mame wrote:That's weird, Tico. Is it allergic to sunlight?
I figured it was allergic to the intense heat in the jar.
cicerone imposter wrote:
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
(And I thought I had bad breath in the morning!)
There was a kid's wildlife show on tv about an hour ago which talked about this very thing.
They don't actually breathe, its something like a gill that filters in water and the oxygen is extracted internally.
Very curious though!
The largest eye in the animal kingdom (living or even known extinct) is that of the giant squid. A 55-foot dead squid's eye was measured at 15.74 inches in diameter. A human's eye averages 0.94 inches.
http://www.sheddaquarium.org/ani_faqs_08.html#j
Most penguin egg yolks are red.
The yolk color is affected by carotenoid pigments in the crustacean-based penguin diet.
(From Equus' link.)
The original meaning of the word "nice" was "ignorant". (Nice guys must finish last because they're stupid???)
Equus, So "bad asses" finish first?
"Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing!"
Isn't that "bad ass" enough for you?
Equus, the nuns that taught me at school drummed into my head that "nice" only applies to desserts and party dresses - for anything else find a better word! When I got older (oops! "got" was the other no-no) I found it meant something else - "Are you a nice girl or a good girl?"
and c.i. - :wink:
lezzles wrote:Equus, the nuns that taught me at school drummed into my head that "nice" only applies to desserts and party dresses - for anything else find a better word! When I got older (oops! "got" was the other no-no) I found it meant something else - "Are you a nice girl or a good girl?"
and c.i. - :wink:
My parents would have objected to my use of "stupid" in the previous post. They would not let me use that word, ever, under any condition. It was in the same category as four-letter words. Also, they insisted the word "adore" could only be used in reference to God. I was corrected if I said "I adore ice cream" or "I adore that dress you're wearing."
Has anyone beaten my 8 yet on this quiz??
It is possible, although not probable (it's tough
).
http://whatsyourpopsecret.com/quiz_default.aspx
Quote:What was the name of that? I think it starred Jean Reno... Was it "The Professional"?
BTW, Equus, you were right!!
