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Ants
> Common ants can lift 20 times their own body
weight.
> Common ants have the largest brain of any
insect.
> Common ants average life expectancy is about
40-60 days.
> Common queen ants live up to ten or twenty
years.
> Fire ant colonies are typically comprised of
female worker ants & only one queen.
> Fire ants live in colonies, which can contain
over 200,000 ants.
> Fire ants feed on a wide range of foods including
insects, honeydew, plant nectar, seeds, fruits,
and dead animals.
> They are highly attracted to foods high in fat.
Common ants average life expectancy of an ant
is about 40-60 days.
> Common queen ants live up to ten or twenty years.
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Cockroaches
> Can live without their head for one (1) week!
> Can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes.
> Can live without food for a month and without
water for two weeks.
> Can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes.
> Can run up to 3 miles an hour.
> Have been around since dinosaurs.
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Crickets
> Attract scorpions. In fact, there are their delicacy.
> Can go without food for up to 12 months, as long as they have water.
> Have a well-developed sense of hearing.
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Mosquitoes
> The life span for adult mosquitoes is between 2 weeks to 30 days (or a bit more).
> Season starts slowly in spring, peaks in summer, and tapers off into fall.
> Are attracted to carbon dioxide, heat, and light.
> Oranges, lemons, lavender, basil, red wine vinegar and catnip naturally repel mosquitoes.
> Inside: they gravitate toward dark, warm, moist places where they have access to water, and this includes laundry rooms, bathrooms, and kitchens.
> Outside: they rest in tall grass, weeds, and brush near inhabited locations (homes and other buildings). Mosquitoes breed in stagnant, standing fresh water oftentimes found around homes. In tin cans, buckets, discarded tires, and other artificial containers that hold stagnant water.
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Spiders
> Black Widows females are the most poisonous spider
in North America.
> Black Widows will lay up to 400 eggs at a time,
but they are known eat each other.
> Black Widow will only eat her mate when she
mistakes him for a meal!