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Squirrels can’t remember where they hide half of their nuts.

Skunks can shoot their bad smelling spray only about 2 yards, but you can smell it up to 2 ½ miles away. You only need to smell .000000000000071 ounce of it’s spray to know it is there.

One in 5000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can not find any food.

Mexico is the world’s pig tapeworm capital with estimates that about 4% of all Mexican citizens have the adult tapeworm in their system

About 600 species of plants are carnivorous. Most eat insects but also on the menu are frogs, birds and even small monkeys.

For every person there are roughly 200 million insects.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent than that of a rattlesnake.

Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.

Mosquitoes have been found to prefer biting people with smelly feet.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A dragonfly can spot an insect moving 33 feet away.

A bee must visit 4,000 flowers to make one tablespoon of honey.

When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the new queens will survive.  The first queen to emerge destroys all the other queens in their cells and reigns alone.

Ticks are second only to the mosquito as the most dangerous parasites to humans.

.A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn a day.

The world’s smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly

Female fleas consume 15 times their weight daily.

.The leap of the average flea is equivalent to a 100 lb man leaping 1,000 feet and enduring a g-force of 20,000 lbs. The rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.

The reddish-black dust seen in pet fur and bedding is flea feces.

In 30 days 10 adult female fleas - under ideal conditions, can multiply to over 250,000 fleas in various life stages.

A cockroach can live up to a week without a head.

The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.