some ants tend aphids like dairy farmers do cows?
deer botflies look like honey bees?
juvenile cicadas live underground for up to sixteen years before emerging as adults?
in parts of Texas, dung beetles remove 80% of cattle droppings?
earwig moms guard their eggs and newly hatched young?
firefly light is practically heat-free?
male gnats meet up in huge swarms called "ghosts"?
hedylid butterflies live only in New World tropics?
imperial moth caterpillars prefer to eat alone, but adults don't eat at all?
june bugs are actually scarab beetles and not bugs at all?
katydids sing with their wings and hear with their legs?
locust swarms can fly more than 100 km (62 miles) in a single day?
a mosquito can smell you from over 25 meters (82 feet) away?
needlebugs breath underwater ― through their tails?
oxybelus wasps like to make their nests underground?
the praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its heads 180 degrees?
questionmark butterflies change their wing color with the seasons?
the robber fly has five (two compound, and three simple) eyes?
stink bug eggs turn from white to pink just before they hatch?
termite queens can live longer than fifteen years and lay more than 6000 eggs a day?
unicorn beetles can grow to more than 170 mm (6 inches) long?
viceroy butterflies and monarch butterflies mimic each other's appearance to scare off predators?
walking sticks can shed and regrow their legs?
xylophagid fly larva can withstand arctic temperatures as cold as -43ºC (-45.4ºF)?
yucca moth moms smell a flower before laying their eggs so they don't crowd someone else's crib?
the first thing a zebra swallowtail caterpillar eats is it's own eggshell?
