From a Pest Control Officer’s Journal
Silverfish don’t drink: they absorb water from the atmosphere, up their bottoms.
Cat’s prefer to play with mice rather than kill them, sometimes.
Mice don’t need to drink water
A “rat king” is when a group of rats become intertwined by means of their tails getting stuck together by a combination of faeces, blood and general muck.
A cockroach can live for up to a week without a head.
Bedbugs can survive up to one year without feeding.
Ants don’t sleep.
Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
Ants cannot chew their food. They move their jaws sideways, like a scissor, to extract the juices from the food.
Rats contaminate and destroy enough food worldwide each year to feed 200 million people.
The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
The honeybee kills more people world-wide than all the poisonous snakes combined.
The largest cockroach is 9.7 cm in length.
When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens. The first new queen that emerges destroys all other queens in their cells.
To scare off predators, some spiders make decoys of themselves out of their webs.
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