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• [Insects fact 1]  Army ants were used as the first dissolving surgical sutures in India in 3000 B.C. and they still are utilized for this very purpose by Maasai people.

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• [Insects fact 2]  When grasshoppers experience an increase in serotonin, a common brain chemical, they go through metamorphosis in 2 to 3 hours and become locusts.

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• [Insects fact 3]  Worker ants take up to 250 naps everyday, with each nap lasting just over a minute. This equates to 4 hours and 48 minutes of sleep per day.

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• [Insects fact 4]  Cleopatra had a special lipstick made for her, consisting of a crushed mixture of ants and deep red carmine beetles.

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• [Insects fact 5]  Ants were the first non-human meat farmers. An African breed of ants raises other bugs for food.

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• [Insects fact 6]  A San Francisco man named Tim Wong saved a threatened butterfly species (California pipevine swallowtail butterflies) by replanting rare flora in his backyard, transporting caterpillars to his local botanical garden, where they began to make a comeback.

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• [Insects fact 7]  A giant American wasp called the tarantula wasp has a sting so painful, one peer-reviewed journal advises anyone who gets stung to "lie down and scream" to avoid further injury.

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• [Insects fact 8]  A species of tiger moth named Bertholdia trigona effectively jams bats' echolocation by producing up to 4,500 clicks per second. This jamming is the most effective prey defense against bats ever documented, reducing their success rate tenfold.

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• [Insects fact 9]  Bees tell their friends about good nearby flowers by dancing.

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• [Insects fact 10]  Once a year in parts of England flying ants migrate. Seagulls catch and eat them and then become drunk off the ants' formic acid, causing them to crash into buildings and moving cars.

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