- There are about 91,000 different kinds of insects in the United States. In the world, some
 1.5 million different kinds have been named.
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 Houseflies find sugar with their feet, which are 10 million times more sensitive than human tongues.
- While gathering food, a bee may fly up to 60 miles in one day.
- Ants can lift and carry more than fifty times their own weight.
- Wasps feeding on fermenting juice have been known to get "drunk" and pass out.
- The queen of a certain termite species can lay 40,000 eggs per day.
- Beetles account for one quarter of all known species of plants and animals. There are more kinds of beetles than all plants.
- 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.
- There are nearly as many species of ants (8,800) as there are species of birds (9,000) in the world.
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