The Facts about Bugs

• To survive the cold of winter months, many insects replace their body water with a chemical called glycerol, which acts as an "antifreeze" against the temperatures.
• Wasps feeding on fermenting juice have been known to get "drunk' and pass out.
• While gathering food, a bee may fly up to 60 miles in one day.
• Each year, insects eat about a third of the world's food crops.
• Mosquitoes are more likely to bite children than adults, blonde-haired people rather than brown-haired people, and people wearing dark clothing. They are also attracted to people who just ate bananas or finished exercising. This is because foods high in potassium and exercising cause your body to release lactic acid, which is attractive to mosquitoes.
• Citronella does not repel mosquitoes through its smell. Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates its feet.
• A spider's web is not a home, but rather a trap for its food.
• The most poisonous spider is the black widow. Its venom is more potent than a rattlesnake's.
• Honeybees are more dangerous than snakes. Bees kill more people each year than all the poisonous snakes combined.
• Aphids are born pregnant and can give birth when they are only ten days old.