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| Monday, July 19, 2010 |
| TT - Insect Trivia |
1. Mosquitos have teeth.
2. Female mosquitoes flap their wings nearly 500 times per second.
3. If you take one pound of cob webs and spread them out in one straight line, it will go around the earth 2 times.
4. Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a by a poisonous spider?
5. A cockroach will live nine days without it’s head before it starves to death.
6. Butterflies use their feet to taste things.
7. The female preying mantis initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
8. Earthworms have 5 hearts.
9. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
10. The honey bee is the only bee that dies after stinging.
11. The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like human jumping the length of about 7 football fields.
12. The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1!
13. The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
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posted by Nature Mad @ 3:58 PM  |
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| 16 Comments: |
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#5 Really creeped me out!!! Happy TT .. :)
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I could have provided you with a good chunk of that 1 pound of cobwebs till last week when I did some serious cleaning although I keep finding new ones....
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GOD! I hate roaches! Even more now. How is that normal?
Uhhhhh!
Happy TT!
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Incredible! I always suspected mosquites had fangs or something. I'm sure I'd sleep better tonight if I hadn't read the whole list, but... lol
Thanks for sharing :)
Happy TTing!
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I coulda sworn #7 was found not to be the case all the time?
Great facts!
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I loved this list---I had heard some of those things, but assumed they weren't true (the cockroach one, especially, ew....
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ew? mosquito teeth? lol
Happy tt!
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Wow! Earthworms have 5 hearts? #3 is amazing!
Great list! Happy TT! :)
Mine's up at http://sasha-says.com
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cool info creepy but interestig :)
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I'm stuck on the first one. TEETH??
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Love the list! Insects and other inverts fascinate me. TFS :)
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Interesting list, happy TT!
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Incredible. I already knew several of these, though learned a lot of new stuff here, lol.
Happy T13.
Please stop my and see mine.
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Where do you find all these facts? I feel sort of sad for the cockroach with no head!
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You always have the coolest facts!
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