God’s Little Creatures
By May Rostom
We all hate the little imposters that infest our homes especially during the summer. Whether you despise flies, roaches, or even ants I'm sure you’ll find this week’s facts a little bit amusing.
A butterfly can see the colors red, green, and yellow.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
Ants don't sleep.
Only female mosquitoes bite humans. Male mosquitoes live on natural liquids from plants and other resources.
The spider used in the 2002 movie Spider-Man was a Steatoda spider, not a black widow. The spider was given anesthesia, and was then painted blue and red.
A cockroach can hold its breath for up to 40 minutes.
Ants can lift 20 times their own body weight.
Flies vomit on food before eating it. They can only consume liquids so their vomit is a tool to liquefy their food.
And as Bill Vaughan once said “We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.”
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