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| The ant can lift 50 times its own weight and can pull 30 times its own weight. No two spider webs are the same. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee. A snail can sleep for three years. The honeybee kills more people worldwide than all the poisonous snakes combined. Each year insects eat one third of the world's food crop. Living scorpions reflect ultraviolet light and can glow with an eerie greenish colour when exposed to UV light, no matter what colour they appear under normal lighting conditions. The Jungle Nymph Stick insect is one of the heaviest insects. In Malaysia they are often kept by people who feed them guava leaves and use their droppings to make tea. The metallic coloured wing covers of some beetles are used for jewellery. Butterflies and moths are found on all land masses except Antarctica. |
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