Interesting Facts about Insects
- Scientists say that the number of insect species is between 6 to 10 millions.
- The insect have the three parts of legs
- Insects have two antennae.
- Ants and bees have well organized colonies for live.
- Insects have cold blood.
- The insect have three parts of bodies, thorax head and abdomen.
- Same insect can walk on water's surface. The famous is Gerridae etc
- Spiders are not insects.
- Bees can live on every continent of the Earth except Antarctica.
- Some insect like cicadas can make sound 120 decibels loud.
- Butterflies also live on every continent of Earth except Antarctica.
- Night butterflies have ears on their wings so they can avoid from bats.
- The taste sensors of butterfly are located below their feet.
- A butterfly must be 86 degree temperature to fly.
- A butterfly can see only three colors green red and yellow.
- "Flutterby" is the original name of butterfly.
- Butterfly belongs to insect's largest most varied group of animals.
- The world heaviest insect is Goliath beetle who live in Africa .It's weigh can up to 100 gm.
- Approximately, a bee's life is six weeks. During honey production period.
- Bees visit 2 million flowers to make one pound honey.
- A single hive contains 40 to 45000 bees.
- Bees are only insect which make food for us.
- 8 pound honey is eaten to produce 1 pound of beeswax.
- The average hive's temperature is 93.5 degrees.
- The Queen lay almost 2000 eggs in a day,
- Bees fly with speed of 15 mph.
- Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
- The number of bees wings stroke in a minute is 11,500
- Bees communicate with each other by special bees dancing.
- 12 bees make on teaspoon honey in their life.
- Honey bee visits 75 flowers in one trip.
- In the whole life a bee's average to produce honey is 1/12 of a teaspoon.
- Honey bees use sun as a compass which helps them to find path.
