In a survey conducted on mosquitoes it was noticed that mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
Only the female mosquitoes bite because they need the protein from blood to produce their eggs and she can triple her body weight with just one meal of blood.
Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.
Dragonflies have as many as 30,000 lenses in each eye.
The average mosquito has 47 teeth - but it's the mosquito's sharp proboscis that'll make you itch.
The proboscis, which looks like a really long, pointy nose, is the female mosquito's rather effective tool for sharing your blood supply.
There are grasshoppers that can draw blood with a kick.
Fleas that can leap eight hundred times farther than their body length.
Did you know that the Deer Bot Fly, Cephenemyia jellisoni Townsend (the infamous supersonic fly) was reputed by C.H.T. Townsend, that father of "Myiology" in 1926, to zoom from hilltop to hilltop in New Mexico at speeds of up to 818 miles per hour!
Courtship among Balloon Flies is dangerous because the female, when given a chance, will eat the male. To keep his head and get the girl, the male fly resorts to gift-giving, presenting the female with a small, balloon-shaped cocoon. Unwrapping the present keeps the female distracted, giving the male time to love her and then leave her.
A scorpion can have up to 12 eyes.
A caterpillar grows roughly 27,000 times its size when it first emerges as an egg.
Locusts can eat their own weight in food in a day. A person eats his own body weight in about half a year.