Bug Ball week 6
Books
Fiction
Nonfiction
Picture Books & Readers
Movies
Bee Movie
Bug’s Life
Charlotte’s Web
Roach Approach
Spiderman movie series
Websites
Koday’s Kids Amazing Insects
University of Florida’s
Best of the Bugs Web Site
Inspecta World
Alien Empire (PBS)
Tales From The Hive (PBS)
Eating Insects from National Geographic
Bug Bowl
World Championship Cockroach Racing
Hungry? Try a Bug!!
Here are some websites with some tasty insect recipes:
Iowa State
University Insect Recipes
Edible Insects
University of Kentucky’s Bugfood!
Jokes
What's the difference between a fly and a bird?
A bird can fly, but a fly can't bird!
What do you call a fly without wings?
A walk.
What's green and can jump a mile in a minute?
A grasshopper with hiccups.
What has four wheels and flies?
A garbage truck.
What's a mosquito's favorite sport?
Skin diving.
How do fireflies start a race?
Ready, set, glow!
Amazing Insect Facts
1. For every person on the earth, there are two hundred million
insects. More insects can be found in only ten square feet of rainforest
than there are people in Manhattan. One square mile of rural land can
hold more insects than there are human beings on Earth.
2. Over 900,000 known species of insects exist throughout the
world.
3. Each year, insects eat about a third of the world's food
crops.
4. In contrast, 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.
According to some sources, beetles have a taste that is similar to
apples while wasps taste like pine nuts.
5. The Department of Health and Human Services has set standards
regarding how many insect parts are food can contain, called the Food
Defect Action Levels. Chocolate can have up to eight insect fragments
per hundred grams, while peanut butter can have only sixty fragments.
Meanwhile, wheat flour can have 150 fragments per hundred grams and
paprika can have 300 fragments.
6. The smallest insect in the world, the Tanzanian parasitic
wasp, is smaller than the eye on a housefly. The largest insect is the
goliath beetle, which can grow up to four and half inches long.
7. Slavery is not strictly a human condition. Amazon ants will
steal larvae of other ants to be their slaves. They depend upon these
slaves for their survival because Amazon ants are incapable of doing
anything other than fight.
8. An ant is capable of lifting fifty times its own weight and
is capable pulling thirty times its own weight.
9. The most dangerous ant in the world is the black bulldog ant.
It lives in Australia and has killed several human beings. When
provoked, it stings and bites at the same time.
10. There are about a million ants per person. Ants are very
social animals and will live in colonies that can contain almost 500,000
ants.
11. A flea can jump about two hundred times the length of their
body, which is about thirteen inches. This is the equivalent to a six
foot tall human jumping nine hundred feet.
12. 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.
13. Mosquitoes have forty-seven teeth. They do not use these to
bite, however. Instead, they have a proboscis, which is a tubular
appendage.
14. Mosquitoes are more likely to bite children than adults,
blonde-haired people rather than brown-haired people, and people wearing
dark clothing. They are also attracted to people who just ate bananas or
finished exercising. This is because foods high in potassium and
exercising cause your body to release lactic acid, which is attractive
to mosquitoes.
15. Citronella does not repel mosquitoes through its smell.
Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates its feet.
16. Mosquitoes are responsible causing the most human deaths
worldwide than any other animal-almost two million annually. They do
this by transmitting diseases such as the West Nile virus, malaria, and
Dengue fever. Second to this is the tsetse fly, which kills about 66,000
people annually.
17. Dragonflies are capable of flying sixty miles per hour,
making them one of the fastest insects. This is good since they are in a
big hurry, as they only live about twenty-four hours.
18. Flies jump backwards during takeoff.
19. A housefly will regurgitate its food and eat it again.
20. Termites outweigh humans by almost ten to one.
21. Termites have been known to eat food twice as fast when
heavy metal music is playing.
22. There are more beetles than any other animal. In fact, one
out of every four animals is a beetle.
23. The rhinoceros beetle is the strongest animal and is capable
of lifting 850 times its own weight.
24. A spider's web is not a home, but rather a trap for its
food. They are as individual as snowflakes, with no two ever being the
same. Some tropical spiders have built webs over eighteen feet across.
25. More people are afraid of spiders than death. Amazingly, few
people are afraid of Champagne corks even though you are more likely to
be killed by one than by a spider.
26. The most poisonous spider is the black widow. Its venom is
more potent than a rattlesnake's.
27. During its lifetime, a worker bee will only produce about
one-twelfth of a teaspoon of honey.
28. Honeybees are more dangerous than snakes. Bees kill more
people each year than all the poisonous snakes combined.
29. Butterflies have taste sensors in their feet and taste their
food by standing on it. Although all species of butterflies have six
legs, some keep their front legs tucked up under their body most of the
time.
30. The butterfly was originally called the "flutterby."
31. The praying mantis is capable of turning its head 360
degrees. It is the only insect that can do this. It is also the only
animal on Earth with only one ear.
32. Crickets and katydids have ears on their legs.
33. Aphids are born pregnant and can give birth when they are
only ten days old.
34. Only male crickets can chirp and will chirp faster in warm
weather than cool. In fact, you can determine the temperature by
counting the number of chirps in fifteen seconds and adding it to 37.
35. The average bed contains between two million to six million
dust mites.
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