Amazing Facts about Ants
May 13, 2022
➤ There are more than 12,000 species of ants all over the world.
➤ Ants go on battle , fought with their rival colonies for weeks at a time.
➤Ants smaell with their antenna !
➤Each ant colony has its own special scent. So they can identify their own members and intruders!
➤Ants can digg their nest 2 feet Deeper underground.
➤Ant's can navigate using the magnetic field of earth.
➤Ants have strongest feeling vibrations in the ground , they hear through their feet . Because they don't have ears.
➤Ant's jaws is like a sharp scissors they open widely sideways.
➤Ant's have a whooping 250,000 brain cells. Officially they are the world's smartest insects.
➤Queen ants have longest life among insects. They can live 30 years .
➤When The Queen complete matin she no longer needed her wings , that fall off after.
➤Soldiers ant ' steal ' eggs from other colonies and when they born they became works as slaves.
➤ Female worker ants can travel as long far as 200 metres from their nests. That’s a long way when you’re that small!
➤ Adetomyrma is a genus of ants that only found in Madagascar . Did you know, tahat the workers of this genus can't see , they are blind . Socking facts about this tribe is , it includes thw Dracula ants those can feed on hemolymph of larvae and pupae.
➤The world’s biggest ant is the bullet ant, which is found in the Panama jungle. These critters can grow up to 1.6 inches.
➤The sting of a bullet ant is powerful enough to paralyse a tarantula.
➤There is a species of ant called Bulldog ant , their bite can kill a human in 15 minutes.
➤Australian green ant colonies can have nests spanning over twelve trees.
➤ Did you know,The world’s smallest ant is the Pharoah ant, which is a teeny 2mm long.
➤The leafcutter ant is the strongest ant, which can lift 50 times its body weight.
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References
100 facts about Ants - https://www.colonialpest.com/fun-fact/100-fun-facts-ants/
Wonderful Facts about Wasps
May 12, 2022
❏ Wasps come in any colour imaginable including , blue, green, red and, of course, yellow , orange,and black.
❏ Only female wasps have stingers.
❏ The stingers of wasps are actually a modified egg-laying organ.
❏ Social wasps use their stingers as a defence, while solitary wasps use their stingers and venom for hunting.
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❏ Did you know, Wasps feed their young meat.
❏ Paperwasps creat their own paper by chewing and spitting out barks for nest building.
❏ Potter Wasp make clay to buil their mud nest.
❏ Social wasps in the UK are estimated to capture about 14 million kilograms of insect prey annually.
❏ European Hornets strip the bark from trees, causing damage to trees and shrubs.
❏ A Brazilian wasp Polybia paulista produces a toxin in its venom that eliminates cancer cells.
❏ Did you know there is a family of wasp known as Pompilidae , they hunt spiders to lay eggs.
❏ There 5000 species of Spiders hunting wasp in 6 subfamilies.
❏ The male tarantula hawk wasp does not hunt.
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❏ The female tarantula hawk wasp stings a tarantula paralyzes and drags to a specially prepared burrow and lay only a single egg in it.
❏ The sting Tarantula hawk wasp ranked second most painful among insects.
❏ Did you know , Pepsis_grossa is the state insect of New Mexico.
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References
Wasp 21 facts you won't believe- https://kidadl.com/animal-facts/wasp-facts
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➣ There are over 16,000 known species of bees in seven recognized biological families.
➣ Some species are social and lives in colonies .
➣ Most of bees greater than 90 percent are solitary.
➣ Did you know , Bees have 5 eyes.
➣ The tips of the antennae have more than 300 taste sensors!
➣ Did you know, Bee can't see color red.
➣ The honey bee is the only insect that produces a food eaten by human.
➣ Honey bee foragers must collect nectar from about 2 million flowers to make 1 pound of honey.
➣ The average forager makes about 1/12 th of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
➣ Did you know, If the queen bee dies in a honey bee hive the workers can create a new queen bee. For this purpose, they select a young larva and, by feeding it a special food called "royal jelly", the larva develops into a fertile queen.
➣ Honey Bees have two stomach , one to digest and second for gathering honey.
➣ Bees teach each other how to make honey; it's not inborn.
➣ Losing its stinger will cause a bee to die.
➣ The honey bee is one of the most scientifically studied creatures in the world after man!
➣ The honey bee's brain is about the size of a tiny grain of sugar, but researchers have found that it is surprisingly sophisticated.
➣ The honey bee's brain is about the size of a tiny grain of sugar, but researchers have found that it is surprisingly sophisticated.
➣ Vulture bee make meat honey, they gather meat from the dead and rotting animals and produce honey like substance.
➣ Halictidae is the second-largest family of bees but smallest in the size , the workers are less than 2mm long.
➣ Megachile pluto, also known as Wallace's giant bee or 'king of the bees' . it is the largest known living bee species. It's as long as adults thumb.
➣ Wellace's Giant bee has large size of jaws that easilydistinguished them from other bees.
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References
Surprising facts about honey bee ,That we dont have on our blog - https://www.buzzaboutbees.net/honey-bee-facts.html
Fantastic Facts about Flies
May 11, 2022
➤ Did you know Flies are Deaf.
➤ On average, the life cycle of a house fly only lasts for around 30 days.
➤ In a lifetime house flies can lay up to 500 eggs.
➤ Flies have sticky pads on their feet , so they can walk upside down , and vertically.
➤ Flies don't have eyelid so they clean it with their legs.
➤ Drosophila bifurca , tiny fruit fly's sperm is 6 cm or 2.4 inches long , which is 20 times longer than the fly itself, and 1000 times longer than a human sperm.
➤ The Compound eyes of flies are actually madeup of separate light detecting units.
Beetles Buttom line
May 11, 2022
➣ Beetles are the Strongmen of the animal kingdom.
➣ Did you know ,The stag beetle is the largest species of insect to be found in the UK.
➣ One dung beetle can drag 1,141 times its weight.
➣ Did you know , Fireflies are actually Beetle.
➣ Did you know , Lady bugs are not bug they are beetles .
➣ Different Types of Ladybugs have different numbers of spots.
Mind-blowing Facts about Moths | Lepidoptera
May 11, 2022
➤ Over 90% of known Lepidoptera are moths.
➤ Moths have a more grounded feeling of smell than butterflies.
➤ Some moths as adult don't have mouth,They can get by energy stored during caterpillar.
➤ Some moths can confuse bats by clicking ultrasonic sound.
➤ Average weight of Moth species can range from 0.003 to12 g.
➤ Many females of tussock family of Moths don't have wings.
➤ Some moths caterpillar loaded with sharp sting hairs .
➤ Moth navigate with lights of moon and stars, but when light source are obscured they go through geomagnetic clues.
➤ Moths don't get the radiant sun energy , so they heat up their flight muscle by vibrating their wings.
➤ Male moths have larger antenna than female ,so they can detect females for mating.
➤ Did you know,Each Moths species have their own unique wing veins . It's helpful for species identification.
➤ Hawk Moths are a family of moths scientifically described as Sphingidae.
➤ Hawk Moths are also known as sphinx.
➤Hawk moths have special adaptations of narrow wings and streamlined abdomens for rapid flight.
➤ Hawk Moths are so popular for their " swing - hovering '' flight ability.rapidly moving from side to side while hovering.
➤ Hummingbird moth beats their wings 70 times in every second. Means 4200 times in minutes.
➤ Hawk Moth caterpillars are known as " hornworms".
➤ larvae of hawk Moths tend to be specific feeders, rather than generalists.
➤ Some species can tolerate quite high concentrations of specific toxins.
➤ Some species of hornworms ,(caterpillars of hawk moth) do sequester toxins from their hosts, but do not pass them on to the adult stage.
➤ Did you know, many of the hawk moths pupate underground .
➤ death's-head hawkmoths are capable of producing a "squeak" from the pharynx, a response triggered by external agitation.
➤ African death's - head hawk moth is most commonly identified by the vaguely skull-shaped pattern adorning the thorax , thats the reason its got the name .
➤ The moth sucks in air, causing an internal flap between the mouth and throat to vibrate at a rapid speed. The "squeak" described is produced upon the exhalation when the flap is open.
➤ Each cycle of inhalation and exhalation takes approximately one fifth of a second.
➤ The death's head hawk moths have the habits of raiding honey bee hive.
➤ The squeak produced from this moth mimics the piping noise produced from a honey bee hive's queen, a noise in which she utilizes to signal the worker bees to stop moving.
References
Moth Fun Facts - Pdf file -
Unknown Facts about Praying Mantids
May 11, 2022
➥ Mantodea are an order of insects known as Mantises .
➥ there more over 2,400 species of mantises in about 460 genera in 33 families.
➥ The largest family Mantises is the Mantidae ("mantids").
➥ Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats.
➥ The closest relatives of mantises are cockroaches and termites .
➥ The earliest mantis fossils are about 140 million years old, from Siberia .
➥ Mantises has two bulbous compound eyes, three small simple eyes.
➥ Mantises has just one single ear.
➥ Some mantids are flightless and don't have an ear.
➥ Mantids can turn their head full 180° .
➥ The abdomen tends to be slimmer in males than females.
➥ The female lays between 10 and 400 eggs, depending on the species.
➥ Female Mantids secretes styrofoam like substance from their body to protect their eggs.
➥ Smaller ones may live 4–8 weeks, while larger species may live 4–6 months.
➥ Mantis nymphs are eaten by ants, which can sometimes wipe out an entire batch of young mantis nymphs.
➥Surviving mantis nymphs molt several times, each time becoming more like the adult,
➥ After the final molt, most species have wings, though some species remain wingless or brachypterous ("short-winged"), particularly in the female sex.
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➥ Mantids usually love to eat the haed of their prey.
➥ Praying Mantis uses their forelimbs like hands,
That have rows of sharp spines which helps to hold their pray.
➥ Larger mantises sometimes eat smaller individuals of their own species.
➥ Praying Mantids known for eating their mate's.
( Female eats male mantis)
➥ Did you know,in China there separately developed have movements and fighting strategies based on those of the mantis.
References
Read more: Praying Mantis - Reproduction - Mantids, Nymphs, Eggs, and Female - JRank Articles https://science.jrank.org/pages/5441/Praying-Mantis-Reproduction.html#ixzz7UlQwZpgi
Amazing Facts about Dragonflies Damselflies Robberflies Owlfies and Antlions | Things You Must know about these amazing winged hunter insects . Notorious Insects .
May 10, 2022
Amazing Facts about DragonflieS and Damselflies
➮ Both Dragonflies and Damselflies is a flying insect belonging to the order Odonata.
➮ They Devided into unique infraorder, Dragonflies are belongs to infraorder Anisoptera and Damselflies belonging Zygoptera infraorder.
➮ Dragonflies are agile fliers, while damselflies have a weaker, fluttery flight.
➮ the wings of most dragonflies are held flat and away from the body, while damselflies hold their wings folded at rest, along or above the abdomen.
➮ Both Dragon flies and Damselflies are aquatic in their larval stage.
➮the male grasps the female at the back of the head, and the female curls her abdomen under her body to pick up sperm from the male's secondary genitalia at the front of his abdomen, forming the "heart" or "wheel" posture.
➮ Dragonflies Can Fly Backward, Loop the Loop and Hover in Place.
➮ Adult Dragonflies Can Eat While Flying.
➮ Dragonflies' Eyes Cover Their Whole Head.
Facts about Grasshoppers
May 10, 2022
Facts about Grasshoppers
➣ insect groups belongs to the suborder Caelifera are Grasshoppers.
➣ about 11,000 species of Grasshoppers are known .
➣ Grasshoppers appear more than 300 million years ago.
➣Grashopper have a large pair of compound eyes for all-round vision, and more three simple eyes to detect light and dark.
➣ Grashopers has a pair of thread-like antennae that are sensitive to touch and smell.
➣ The downward-directed mouthparts of Grasshoppers are modified for chewing and there are two sensory palps in front of the jaws.
➣ Grasshopper have the auditory organs in their abdomen. Ears in their belly.
➣ The forewings, known as tegmina, are narrow and leathery while the hindwings are large and membranous,
➣ Front legs of grasshopper are much shorter than hind legs. They are used for walking and feeding.
➣Grasshoppers are best jumpers, they has long legs that especially designed with string like structure in knees which acts like catapult
➣ Grasshopper's single jump can be 200 times longer than their body length.
➣ Grasshoppers produce songs by rubbing their legs with wings. Songs are used to attract females.
➣ The generalised song can vary in phraseology and intensity, and is modified in the presence of a rival male, and changes again to a courtship song when a female is nearby.
➣ though in some species of Grasshoppers, the females also stridulate.
➣ The female of most Grasshopper species digs a hole with her ovipositor and lays a batch of eggs in a pod in the ground near food plants.
➣ Grasshoppers covers the hole with soil and litter After laying the eggs.
➣ Some, like the semi-aquatic Cornops aquaticum, deposit the pod directly into plant tissue.
➣ The eggs in the pod are glued together with a froth in some species
➣ The migratory grasshopper, Melanoplus sanguinipes, spends about 25 to 30 days as a nymph
➣ depending on sex and temperature an adult lives for about 51 days .
➣ Grasshoppers undergoes five moults, and tehy becoming more similar to the adult insect at each developmental stage.
➣ An adult desert locust can eat about 2 g (0.1 oz) of plant material each day.
➣ Many of the Grasshoppers are master of disguise. However some are Bright colored.
➣ Dactylotum bicolor, known as the painted grasshopper
Has Captivating Coloration so they called rainbow grasshopper.
➣ The rainbow grasshopper is also distasteful to birds.
➣ During the migration, grasshopper can remain in the air (without landing) three days.
➣ The largest recorded locust swarm was one formed by the now-extinct Rocky Mountain locust in 1875; the swarm was 1,800 miles (2,900 km) long and 110 miles (180 km) wide,[42] and one estimate puts the number of locusts involved at 3.5 trillion.
Facts about Butterflies
May 10, 2022
❏ Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
❏ Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera have been found.
❏ The Brimstone butterfly (Gonepterix rhamni) has the longest lifetime of the adult butterflies: 9-10 months.
❏ Some butterflies can fly 50km/h or faster. Slow flying butterflies probably fly about 10km/h.
❏ A group of butterflies puddling together is referred to as a “puddle club”.
❏ Some Butterflies are nomadic in behavior , for example Common Jezebel.
❏ Butterflies glue their eggs to leaves.
❏ Butterflies lays hundreads of eggs, depending on species numbers increases upto 500 hundreds.,
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| Common Jezebel butterfly, laying eggs. |
❏ The common rose is active much earlier in the morning, rest in middle of the day and again seen late afternoon.
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| Common Rose butterfly |
❏ Monarch butterflies are the only insect in the whole world that travels over 2,500 miles on average every winter.
❏ These migrations take place over a number of generations and no single individual completes the whole trip.
❏ Butterflies can see green , yellow and red colours.
❏ Butterflies can see beyond the ultraviolet spectrum and their eyes consist of a network of 6000 lenses.
❏ Each species of butterfly has its own host plant range and while some species of butterfly are restricted to just one species of plant.
❏ The antennae are composed of many segments and have clubbed tips . The sensory receptors are concentrated in the tips and can detect odours.
References
Beautiful butterfly facts - https://www.thefactsite.com/beautiful-butterfly-facts/
