The average airspeed of the common housefly is 7.24 kilometres per hour. A housefly beats its wings about 20,000 times per minute.
The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito.
The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.
The average bee can travel up to 17.7 kilometres per hour.
House flies, on average, live for only two weeks.
The life expectancy of a queen bee is 6 years, a worker bee wears out its wings within 6 months, and a drone survives just 8 weeks.
Some spiders can travel up to 1. 88 kilometres per hour.
The caterpillar has more than 2,000 muscles.
The fastest insect on record that has been reliably measured is the Australian dragon fly, which has a top speed of around 57 km/h.
The fastest snail is the ordinary garden snail. This snail could race along at 0.05 kilometres per hour.
The honeybee kills more people each year world-wide, than venomous snakes.
There is in excess of 5 million different species of insects in the world. The insect population of the world is at least 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. The weight of the world’s insect population exceeds that of humankind by a factor of twelve.
A group of Caterpillars is an army of caterpillars.
A group of Rattlesnakes is a rhumba of rattlesnakes.
Yet, group of Vipers is a nest of vipers.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
The most dangerous ant in the world is the Australian Bulldog Ant, (which is up to 4 centimeters long!). Believed to be responsible for at least three deaths.
You’re more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.
Mosquitos have teeth.
Cockroaches’ favourite food is the glue on envelopes and on the back of postage stamps.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Crickets hear through their knees.
German cockroaches are not really German. The Germans refer to them as Prussian, however they are thought to have originated in Southern Asia.
Cockroaches are known assassins of bed bugs.
There are over 4000 different species of cockroaches worldwide.
A cockroach that has just shed its skeleton is white with black eyes. After eight hours, it has regained its regular colouring.
Cockroaches spend 75% of their time just resting.
In some parts of the world, roaches are profitably raised for chicken feed. (Could this be one of the secret herbs and spices ?)
The fastest recorded speed measured for the American cockroach is nearly 2 miles per hour, or nearly 75 centimetres per second! In the absolute sense, this is a much slower speed than many vertebrates are able to attain. In relation to body size, however, it is remarkably fast. If speed were increased proportionally, an American cockroach the size of a lion could run about 50 miles per hour.
Actually, some of these “facts’ should be taken with a grain of salt.
My experience tells me that almost any food is a favourite to cockroaches,and I am not entirely convinced about roaches living for days without a head.
Perhaps just another urban myth.
JD
Actually, some of these “facts’ should be taken with a grain of salt.
My experience tells me that almost any food is a favourite to cockroaches,and I am not entirely convinced about roaches living for days without a head.
Perhaps just another urban myth.
JD
WOW! This info is amazing…. thanks for the great trivia!