| Fact #1 All insects must have: · Three body parts - a head, thorax, and abdomen · Six jointed legs · Two antennae to sense the world around them · An exoskeleton (outside skeleton) |
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| Fact #2 95% of all the animal species on the earth are insects! |
Fact #3 Over one million species of insects have been discovered by scientists, and they think that there might be ten times that many that haven't been named yet! |
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| Fact #4 The average human will eat 8 spiders while asleep in their lifetime. |
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| Fact #5 A tiny biting midge or "no-seeum" (Forcipomyia) beats its hairy wings 62,760 times per minute. |
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Fact #6 Termites do more than $750 million worth of damage in the U.S. every year, with much of that damage occurring in Florida. That's more than all the fires, storms and earthquakes, combined. |
| Fact #7 The house fly "hums" in the key of F |
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Fact #8 The average airspeed of the common housefly is 4.5 miles per hour. |
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