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 fifty times their own weight.
Mexican Jumping Beans, sometimes sold commercially, actually have a caterpillar of a bean moth inside.
The male silk moth is estimated to "smell" chemicals of female silk moths in the air at the ratio of a few hundred molecules among 25 quintillion (25,000,000,000,000,000,000) molecules in a cubic centimeter of air.
True flies have only one pair of wings, and sometimes, none at all. A hind pair of "wings" is reduced to balancing organs called halteres.
There are about 91,000 different kinds (species) of insects in the United States. In the world, some 1.5 million different kinds (species) have been named.
A particular Hawk Moth caterpillar from Brazil, when alarmed, raises its head and inflates its thorax, causing it to look like the head of a snake.
About one-third of all insect species are carnivorous, and most hunt for their food rather than eating decaying meat or dung.
