Some amazing Insect Facts

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An easy way to differentiate butterflies from moths is by the shape of the antennae.

Butterflies have long thin antenna ending in a club (knob). Moth's antennae are thread-like or feather-like without a club.

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Butterflies rest with their wings folded vertically above the body. Moth's wings form a "roof" over the body.

 

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The compound eye of a dragonfly contains about 30,000 individual lenses.

 

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The colors on a butterfly's wings come from dense, tiny, colored scales that cover the wing.

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The Anopheles mosquito is responsible for about 270 million cases of malaria and causes approximately 2 million deaths annually.

 

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Air temperature in degrees Centigrade can be calculated by adding 11 to the number of chirps a tree cricket (Oecanthus capensis) makes in 3 seconds.

 

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Only female mosquitoes bite as blood is required for breeding

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Some moths can hear bats and take evasive maneuvers to avoid being eaten, hearing the bat's sonar with eardrums located in the abdomen

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Members of the Order Diptera, which includes all flies, have only two wings. The second pair of wings is modified into drumstick-like halteres that function like gyroscopes

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A queen bee can live up to six years and a worker bee six months while the life expectancy of a drone is just eight weeks

 

For more amazing facts about insects see Remarkable Insects of South Africa - A photographic safari. Available from all leading bookstores or direct from the publishers via the internet. Shipping worldwide.

 

 

Insect facts in "Did you know" with acknowledgment to Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California.

 

© COPYRIGHT Lambert Smith, 2009