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Published November 14, 2007 06:24 pm - There are good bugs and bad bugs for gardeners By Molly Day Submitted Story Bugs.
Gardeners can’t live without them as pollinators and soil aerators but we do not appreciate their appetite for munching our vegetables and flowers. In fact, they eat one-third of the earth’s food crops every year. Some interesting bug facts from science and education sites on the Internet include: • There are more than 90,000 known species of insects in the world. • Cockroaches breathe through their bodies so they can live up to a month without a head. • It is no surprise that ants are sleepless — they live in colonies of up to half a million roommates. • Aphids are born pregnant and can give birth 10 days after being born themselves. • The first winged insects on the earth, dragonflies, use their four wings to fly at 60 miles per hour. • Citronella candles work because mosquitoes feet are irritated by it. Only the females bite when seeking protein to produce the next generation. They are responsible for more deaths than any other animal. • No two spider webs are the same. • Only male crickets chirp and they talk only to other males. • Lobsters have blue blood but insects have yellow blood. The female black widow spider’s venom is more potent than a rattlesnake’s. • There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth. • Only one newly laid queen bee survives because the first one destroys all the others so she alone can reign. 
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