Fun Insect Facts For Kids

Did you know?
Ants can lift over 50 times their weight. That would be like you being able to pick up a car!

For every human on the planet there are one million ants! That's a lot of ants!

There are more kinds of insects than there are of any kind of creature.

Dragonflies can fly as fast as 30 miles per hour.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A cockroach can live without its head for about 9 days! (Creepy!)

Fleas that can leap 200 times farther than their body length. That would be like you being able to jump further than a whole football field!

Only female mosquitoes bite people.

Ticks can grow from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a marble.

A bee will fly up to 60 miles in one day collecting food.