As 2018 came to an end, we always like to take a few moments and reflect on the past year. 2018 has been one of the most memorable, fun and generally just successful. Plus this past year had several big ‘firsts’.
Did You Know??
Termite queens will lay up to 30,000 eggs in a day, and live for many years.
Dragonflies are capable of flying sixty miles per hour.
The average bed contains between two million to six million dust mites.
Certain types of grasshoppers and crickets have their ears on their front legs.
Each year the average person will “eat” several insects while they are sleeping.
During the average lifetime, a person consumes about seventy insects and ten spiders during their sleep.
Each year, insects eat about a third of the world’s food crops.
Mosquitoes prefer children over adults, blondes over brunettes and mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.
Honeybees are more dangerous than snakes. Bees kill more people each year than all the poisonous snakes combined.
The rhinoceros beetle is the strongest animal and is capable of lifting 850 times its own weight.