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FUN FACTS
Interesting Facts
About Insects
Fruit flies were the first living creatures to be sent into space.
A single honeybee colony can produce around 100kg of honey each year – that's 220 jars!
Mosquitos are attracted to smelly feet.
A bee's wings beat 190 times a second, that's 11,400 times a minute.
An ant-eating assassin bug piles its victims onto its body to scare predators.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
A hornet's favourite food is a...bee!
One dung beetle can drag 1,141 times its weight – that's like a human pulling six double-decker buses.
Large groups of fireflies sometimes flash in unison.
Grasshoppers have special organs in their hind legs that store energy for jumping.
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