Curiosities from the insect world

* The "home" musk lives only 14 days.

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* Ants never sleep. However, at dawn, the ants stretch out like humans to get tired.

* There are about 200 million insects for every man on the Earth. Only termites exceed us in a ratio of 10 to 1.

* The most numerous animals on Earth are arthropods. As an example, up to now, some 70,000 species of ... spiders have been discovered.

* There are 20,000 bee species in the world. Bee is the most important insect because it helps to multiply flowers ...

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* The gargarita type is identified by the number of black spots on the wings; as the gargarites get older, the black spots on the wings disappear.

* There is a bite species, Cephenomia, whose flight exceeds the speed of sound. It travels at 1300 km / h ...

* An ant can lift a weight 50 times its weight and push objects 30 times heavier than it and always fall on the right when it's nailed.

* A flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a man jump over a football field.

* A kitchen beetle lives nine days without head, then dies of hunger.

* Butterflies are on their feet. Thus, they look for the most suitable leaves, which can lay eggs and which can then be consumed by caterpillars.

* The widow's black-eyed spider is 30 times heavier than the male.

* In a hive ranging between 20,000 and 60,000 bees. The mother lived for about two years and deposited 1500 eggs a day.

* Trantorii live for 24 days and do not have a needle. Workers fly at a speed of 24km / h.

* Within one minute, a bee can knock out of the wings 11,500 times.

* There are no less than 920,000 insects.

* The head of the nun (religious mantis) has a very special position. It's the only insect that can rotate its head 360 degrees. Another oddity is that it has 2 compound eyes and 3 simple eyes.

* Bearded cockroaches can live longer than a week (about 10 days).

* There are more termites than humans on earth. Scientists say that their number is 10 times higher than that of humans.

* The scarab can pick up an object 800 times heavier than it.

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* Did you know that the life of bees depends on the age and the status of the "doctors" who feed them when they are in the larval state? It is known that a bee born in a stronger family will live more than a bee born in a poor family.

* Did you know that the scientists have discovered that, in the very hot summers, the nectar of certain flowers begins to ferment? The bees that harvest this nectar then manage to find their hive and they are not well received by their suitors! Whatever it seems, even bees get drunk!

* In South America lives a giant spider called Avicularia, which feeds on large insects and sometimes even with birds? The natives do not kill him, considering him as the sender of the beneficial spirits who are living in the tropical jungle.

* Lion ant is the name of a small insect digging into the sand where it hides and waits for prey. The ants, passing by these goals, lose their balance and are caught by the lion's "pliers" waiting for them.

* The Brazilians have a very natural natural light source: it is the beetle called Pyrophorus Noctilucus, which is caught by locals and put in various transparent boxes to use as a flashlight because of the light it emits. Also here are the golden cockroaches - Buprestide - that are used as adornments. From the wings of the Uranides and Morphini butterflies, vivid and varied in color, the painters make paintings that are sold with thousands of dollars piece.

* Did you know if all the descendants of a single fly would live, in just five months their number would be 7,600. 000,000 individuals?

* Did you know that the mother is always accompanied by a hundred bees that always nourish her abdomen, distributing the "mother's" substance to the whole family, who perceives it and behaves normally? When this substance is missing or diminished, the bees are anxious and immediately build botts for the growth of some young mothers.

* The blind spider, living in Southeast Asia, weaves the largest canvas (with a surface of nearly 2 m). The thread is so strong that it is made of fishing nets.

* Musca could give us lessons about recycling. A bite regurgitates and eats food several times.

* Gropper or necrophouse is an insect with a special function in nature. It buries small dead mammals, such as mice, cartoons, birds, over which eggs lay out, out of which the larvae will get assured of abundance.

* Calosoma is also called the "forest cop", being a golden green cockroach with red, metallic shimmering, eating greedy with caterpillars, sometimes saving thousands of hectares of forest from defoliation.

* Buburuza and her larvae eat one day on crop and ornamental plants a quantity of green lice (aphids) weighing several times the weight of her body.

* The largest butterfly in the world belongs to the Troides Victoriae species in the Solomon Islands. It can reach up to 30 cm in length.

* Weta Alpina Lacquer turns winter into an ice turtle, and spring returns to life as if nothing had happened.

* Fetus can carry a 10 times heavier weight than the weight of its own body

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* The weight of all the ants on Earth is greater than the weight of all people.

* Mosquitoes are twice as attractive to the blue color as any other color.

* Did you know that there are over 34,000 species of spiders living in Europe, America and Japan in the world? The more terrifying part comes from the fact that there are thousands of other species that, although they have been discovered, have not yet been called and classified!

* The fastest and most powerful spiders are the spiders of the sun. They have so strong jaws that they can kill animals much larger than their size, such as mice, lizards or bats. In terms of speed, I can reach 16 km / h!

• Collection of Lori Balogh

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