I know this isn't directly linked to being a vet but it is vaguely biology related and found some of these facts quite interesting!
- There are more than 900,000 species of insects in the world.
- There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire planet earth.
- In the US wasps kill more people than snakes, spiders and scorpions combined.
- Monarch butterflies feed on the poisonous sap of the milkweed plant then the birds which those butterflies then become ill.
- Some butterflies use their front legs to clean their eyes instead of walking.
- Each year insects eat one third of the earths crop.
- The colour of an adult head louse can depend on the colour of the person's hair in which it is living.
- Dragonflies have as many as 30,000 lenses in each eye.
- A cockroach can live without its head for 9 days and after that dies from lack of water.
- There are more than 200 million insects for each human on the planet.
- Beetles are the largest members of the insect family with more than 350,000 known species.
- Tapeworms range in size from around 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
- Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
I find some of these facts really scary! Now this is definitely a blog post that makes you want to itch just thinking about headlice and cockroaches.
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