1. Some species of baby spiders bite off the limbs of their mothers and slowly dine on them over a period of weeks. Researchers hypothesize the maternal sacrifice keeps the young from eating one another
2. Ladybugs make a chemical that smells and tastes terrible so that birds and other predators won’t eat them.
3. A dozen cockroaches can live off the paste on the back of a postage stamp.
4. More people are killed each year by bees than from snakes.
5. A flea can jump over 110 times its body length, that is like a human around 5ft tall jumping the length of almost 2 football fields.
6. A cockroach can live 9 days without its head before it starves to death.
7. The average spider can travel up to 1.17 miles per hour.