Fun Facts – Insects and Bugs III

• A slug has four noses.
• The mayfly only lives for 8 hours.
• A snail can sleep for 3 years straight.
• A mosquito flaps its wings 500 times a second.
• A cockroach can live for up to 3 weeks without its head.
• Night butterflies have ears on their wings so they can avoid bats.
• There is only one insect that can turn its head — the praying mantis.
• The female black widow’s poison is 15 times deadlier than a rattlesnake’s.
• The honeybee has to travel an average of 43,000 miles to collect enough nectar to make a pound of honey.