Interesting facts about insects 🐞🐝

 Facts :-

  • Ants 🐜:- Ants are the longest living insects.
  • Ants don't have ears and some of them don't have eyes. 

Ants 

  • Butterflies :- Butterflies can see colours that humans can't. 
  • Butterflies taste with their feet. 


 
Papilio demoleus (lemon butterfly) 
  • Dragonfly :-Dragonfly  wings kill bacteria on contact by ripping apart their cell membranes with sharp nanopillar as they move across the surface of the wing. 
  • Dragonfly have been on earth for 300million years! 
    Dragonfly 

  • Grasshopper :- They have special organs in their hind legs that store energy for jumping. 
  • Grasshopper existed before dinosaurs. 
Grasshopper 

  • Lady bird (beetle) :-A labybird might eat more than 5,000 insects in its lifetime. 
  • Ladybird sometimes play dead to avoid predators. 

labybird beetle ( Epilachna borealis) 
  • Mosquitoes:- They are attracted to smelly feet. 
    Aedes aegypti ( yellow fever mosquito)

  • Fruitflies :- Fruitflies were the first living creatures to be sent into space. 
  • Crickets :- They are a great source of protein and iron. 
  • Male crickets sings songs with their wings.
    Crickets 
  • Houseflies:- When house flies land on us, it means that they will vomit and..... Poop!!! 
  • Flies can see movement better than colour. 
    Housefly

  • Bees 🐝:- Only female bees can sting. 
  • The honey that bees produces is an antioxidant that helps improve the function of the human brain. 
    Apis Mellifera (bees)      

Bibliography :

The images are clicked by me and the information are taken from : National Geographic,  ThoughCo,  Fact. net. 

Sunaina Sharma 
04-MSZ-20

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