Spiders are not insects.
Many moths can produce sounds.
Butterflies migrate like birds.
Insect "ears" are located on their antennae.
Ant chocolate balls were popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
Sterilized maggots can help doctors clean decaying wounds.
Insects have an exoskeleton, which is their external skeleton.
Sun spiders (also known as camel spiders) chase animal shadows.
Insects have taste receptors on their tongues, antennae, and legs.
Termites are not ants; they are more closely related to cockroaches.
Some butterflies, like the taraka hamada, eat other insects (aphids).
Insects don't have vocal cords but can produce sounds with wings or legs.
Butterflies are a specialized group of moths, but moths are not butterflies.
The South Island lichen moth is depicted on the New Zealand hundred-dollar bill.
The convolvulus hawk-moth has a long proboscis for reaching inaccessible nectar.
Insects have compound eyes, as well as several small eyes on their heads (ocelli).
Bees die shortly after stinging because their stinger removes their internal organs.
Beetles (Coleoptera) have a similar number of species as naturally occurring plants.
The spittle found in grass is produced by froghopper nymphs and is unrelated to snakes.
Insects primarily breathe through spiracles on their abdomen, not through noses on their heads.
Moths spin cocoons, while butterflies don't. The idiom "breaking out of the cocoon" is incorrect.
There could be 10 million insect species worldwide, but we've only discovered and named 1 million.
The number of known insect species is about three times the number of known plant species in nature.
Forensic scientists can estimate a victim's time and location of death based on certain insect growth.
Not all foreign organisms are invasive; they're labeled invasive only if they threaten native species.
Tiger beetles run so fast that they can temporarily go blind, requiring rest after a certain distance.
Chocolate and chewing gum contain shellac, a substance from lac insects (Ericerus pela and Kerria lacca).
Cockroaches and flies are considered unsanitary but don't get sick. Substances from them can treat human diseases.
Cabbage aphids breed in 2 weeks, yielding 50 offspring. In a year, their weight can encircle Earth 1 million times.
