Nests found in a great variety of situations. Inside buildings, they are often found nesting in the walls or beneath the floor. They are most likely to invade buildings during rainy weather. They travel in trails, foraging day and night.
Did You Know??
A cockroach can live nine days without eating. This is also the same amount of time that the body of a cockroach can live after its head has been cut off before it eventually dies from starvation.
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Only three kinds of animals fight battles in formations: humans, crows and ants.
Termite queens will lay up to 30,000 eggs in a day, and live for many years.
A flea can jump about two hundred times the length of their body, which is about thirteen inches.
Each year, insects eat about a third of the world’s food crops.
Over 900,000 known species of insects exist throughout the world.
The rhinoceros beetle is the strongest animal and is capable of lifting 850 times its own weight.
Each year the average person will “eat” several insects while they are sleeping.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.