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??
During the average lifetime, a person consumes about seventy insects and ten spiders during their sleep.
The rhinoceros beetle is the strongest animal and is capable of lifting 850 times its own weight.
Over 900,000 known species of insects exist throughout the world.
Dragonflies are capable of flying sixty miles per hour.
Only three kinds of animals fight battles in formations: humans, crows and ants.
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.
Certain types of grasshoppers and crickets have their ears on their front legs.
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Termite queens will lay up to 30,000 eggs in a day, and live for many years.
An ant is capable of lifting fifty times its own weight and is capable pulling thirty times its own weight.