There is so much more to pests and insects that we don’t know; things that would probably surprise us. So read on for some shocking facts on those creepy crawlies that have most of us running in the opposite direction.
- Well, you learn something new every day, huh?
- Bed bugs numb the area on you that they want to feed on with their saliva, which is why you can’t feel them bite
- Ants do not sleep
- The blood of an insect is yellow, and the blood of a spider is light blue
- Dragonflies can only live for a day
- Bees have hairy eyes
- Ants can carry about 50 times their own weight
- A caterpillar’s head contains around 248 muscles
- A bee cannot decipher the colour red, to them this is black
- In order to generate one tablespoon of honey, a bee would need to extract pollen from around 4000 flowers, but can visit around 500 flowers in a single journey
- A bee has five eyes in total, whilst a slug has four noses
- Butterflies can only taste with their feet
- Common flies stalk each other for food
- Female fleas can produce up to 1200 eggs in its lifetime; which is around two years
- A dragonfly has sharper eyesight than any other insect
- Snails can fall asleep for three years and they reproduce from their heads
- After around 8-10 days, a maggot turns into a fly
- A mosquito has around 47 teeth
- A botfly can fly faster than a plane
- Fleas can jump about 20 times their own length
- Ants have two stomachs. One it uses to feed itself, and the other it uses to share food with fellow ants
- Cockroaches can survive for nine days after being decapitated, this is because its brain is within its body
- There is such thing as a ‘worker ant’, their jobs are to take out the rubbish
- There is a population of around a million ants to each human
- Female cockroaches cannot chirp
- Not all bees sting
- There are around 360 thousand species of beetles
- A bed bug can tell when you’re asleep by the amount of carbon dioxide you release
- Tarantulas can live for up to 2 years without food
- The biggest spider ever found in a house in the UK was about 5 inches in diameter
- The venom of the violent Brazilian banana spider is 30 times more poisonous than the venom from a rattlesnake
- Around three people die every year from insect bite
It is imperative to deal with insect infestations as soon as possible, and what better way than to call the professionals at Empire Pest Control? It is always worth taking precautionary measures in the name of safety if you suspect you may have an infestation in your home.
Get in touch with the experts at Empire Pest Control today and get those pests seen to.
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