Fun Facts About Bugs

The oldest known fossil of an insect dates back 400 million years and is a springtail.
There are about 91,000 different kinds (species) of insects in the United States. In the world, some 1.5 million different kinds (species) have been named.
There are nearly as many species of ants (8,800) as there are species of birds (9,000) in the world.
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.
Insects have been present for about 350 million years, and humans for only 130,000 years.
Wasps feeding on fermenting juice have been known to get "drunk' and pass out.
Ants can lift and carry more than fifty times their own weight.
Ticks can grow from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a marble.
Roaches wear their skeletons on the outside of their bodies.
Roach mouths work sideways. Try it sometime.
Cockroaches have 6 legs and least 18 knees!!