.........from Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
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The insect world does have tailors. Tailor ants got their name because they form their nests by sewing leaves together! |
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Never underestimate the power of an ant. Leaf-Cutter ants from Central and South America can strip a fruit tree bare in one night! |
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.........from Rachel Keahey of Birmingham, Alabama.... A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. --Notebooks of Lazarus Long-- |
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.........from Jim Robinson of Fort Worth, Texas.... Insects are very nutritious and delicious. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. |
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.........from Jim Robinson of Fort Worth, Texas.... Keep your mouth shut when you sleep. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. |
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.........from Jim Robinson of Fort Worth, Texas.... You didn't kill it! A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death. |
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There is one culprit that has missed the "Most Wanted" list in our post offices. Mosquitoes are the #1 killer of humans in the world! About 2 million people die each year from a disease resulting from a mosquito bite. |
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.........from Calvin Jones of Fort Payne, Alabama.... God in his glory made the fly and then forgot to tell us why. --Ogden Nash-- |
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Did you know that one "hatched" Flea cocoon can produce over a trillion offspring in her 9 month adult stage life-span. This army is able to "raise the dead" to replace any mortalities you might inflict and continue to fight year after year. |
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Did you know that the Deer Bot Fly, Cephenemyia jellisoni Townsend (the infamous supersonic fly) was reputed by C.H.T. Townsend, that father of "Myiology" in 1926, to zoom from hilltop to hilltop in New Mexico at speeds of up to 818 miles per hour! |
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Courtship among Balloon Flies is dangerous because the female, when given a chance, will eat the male. To keep his head and get the girl, the male fly resorts to gift-giving, presenting the female with a small, balloon-shaped cocoon. Unwrapping the present keeps the female distracted, giving the male time to love her and then leave her. |
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