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The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.
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Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
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Ants stretch and yawn when they wake up.
Famous entomologist (insect scientist) Derek Wragge Morley noted a lot of unusual behavior in ants. For instance, when they wake up they stretch out all 6 of their legs and then open their mandibles...
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Though the name suggests 1000 legs, no millipede has had more than 750.
The name “millipede” would suggest that the animal has 1000 legs. However, the actual number of legs on a millipede can vary. The species of millipede with the most legs, Illacme plenipes, can have up...
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Brazilian Wandering Spider bites can cause an erection for 4 hours
Brazilian Wandering Spider appeared in the Guinness World Records 2010 as the world’s most venomous spider.The neurotoxin causes loss of muscle control and asphyxiation, and the bite causes intense...
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The Slave-Maker ant is a species of ants that enslaves other ants!
The whole process is really complex. The slave-maker queen fakes her own death and gets carried to the host colony. She then wakes up, and then kills and impersonates the queen. (more…) The post The...
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Honeybees can be used to detect explosives.
Everyone has heard of dogs on a bomb squad, but un-bee-knownst to most people, honeybees have just as keen a sense of smell. After all, bees are able to track the faint scent of pollen on the wind all...
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Scientists can control flight of beetles using microchips.
It sounds like a piece of science fiction, but there is actually a government-funded project with the goal of military espionage in which the enemy is literally ‘bugged.’ Began in 2006, the...
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Ants can stitch your cut.
Ants can be placed on a cut, and the ant will bite the edges. It will lock on with its mandibles sealing the wound closed like a stitch or a suture. At this time you can remove the ant from it...
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Orchid Mantis disguises itself as a flower to trick bugs!
The Orchid Mantis, like most other types of praying mantis, haven’t been the subject of scientific study until recently. Before we give you all the juicy details on that, we should mention that the...
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