Other Insect Facts

Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight.

If all the insects in the world were put on a scale, they would out weigh all creatures.

For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter ants have been used to close wounds in India, Asia and South America.

The longest insect is a walking stick that can reach a length of 33 centimeters.

The eggs of walking stick insects are among the largest in the insect world. Some eggs are more than eight millimeters long.

A scorpion can have up to 12 eyes.

A caterpillar grows roughly 27,000 times its size when it first emerges as an egg.

Locusts can eat their own weight in food in a day. A person eats his own body weight in about half a year.

Monarch caterpillars shed their skin four times before they become a chrysalis, growing over 2700 times their original size.

The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts.

About 80% of the Earth’s animals are insects!

There is only one insect that can turn its head -- the praying mantis.

A flea can jump 130 times its own height.

The fiddler crab can grow a new claw when it loses one of its own.

The Jungle Nymph Stick is one of the heaviest insects. In Malaysia they are often kept by people who feed them guava leaves and use the droppings to make tea.