Did you know facts › Nature
Nature did you knows
- Did you know brontology is the study of thunder
- Did you know diamonds mined in Brazil are much harder than those found in Africa
- Did you know a bumble bee flaps its wings at 160 times a second
- Did you know a dragonfly can fly at 40kph (25mph)
- Did you know flies can react to an object it sees and change direction in less than 30 milliseconds
- Did you know a queen bee can lay up to 3,000 eggs in one day
- Did you know ants can lift 50 times their own weight
- Did you know bees can see ultraviolet light
- Did you know 80% of the world's food crops are pollinated by insects
- Did you know 10% of with world's food supply is consumed by insects
- Did you know it takes 110 silkworm cocoons to make an average tie
- Did you know queen termites can live up to 50 years
- Did you know most spiders have transparent blood
- Did you know caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles
- Did you know the fastest insect is the Australian dragon fly (its top speed is 57 km/h (35mp/h))
- Did you know honey bees kill more people each year than snakes
- Did you know there are over 100,000 different species of butterflies
- Did you know there are over 80,000 different species of ants
- Did you know all the planets in our solar system could fit inside Jupiter
- Did you know an area of the Suns surface to the equivalent of a postage stamp would shine with the brightness of over 1,500,000 candles