Some useful and strange information just for you!
- A cockroach can live a week without its head. The roach only dies because without a mouth, it can’t drink water and dies of thirst.
- Flies have taste receptors, called chemonsensilla, in their legs. When they land on something they want to eat (your bbq, food left outside, animal feces), they walk around to taste whatever it is they want to eat.
- Over 5 million children are sensitive to cockroaches.
- When living on a person, an adult female mite can live up to a month.
- Ants cannot chew their food. They move their jaws sideways, like a scissor, to extract the juices from the food.
- As many as 100 people die as a result of bee and wasp stings each year.
- Cockroaches as we know them today were present 200 million years ago.
- Scorpions give birth to live babies, several dozen at a time.
- Rats contaminate and destroy enough food worldwide each year to feed 200 million people.
- Scorpion stings are more dangerous for children and those with existing heart or lung problems.
- The German cockroach is the most common cockroach found in and around apartments, homes, supermarkets and restaurants.
- Cockroaches can run up to three miles in an hour.
- Kissing bugs are not as romantic as their name implies. Rather, they bite and suck blood while their human or animal host is sleeping.
- Crickets hear through their knees.
- The Africanized Honey Bee (a.k.a. “killer bee”) has been known to chase people for over a quarter of a mile once they have gotten excited and aggressive.
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