26Cuckoo bumblebee
The Cuckoo bumblebee has lost the ability to collect pollen and to rear their brood. Once a female has infiltrated a host colony, she will kill/subdue the queen of that colony and forcibly "enslave" the workers of that colony to feed her and her developing young.
27. Antarctica's largest native land animal is a 2mm-long insect called Belgica antarctica. It is the only insect that lives on the continent.
28. Ants conduct war in ways similar to humans, they even use more advanced strategies like reconnaissance and sending expendable ants to the front line to preserve the stronger ones.
29. World's rarest insect is 15cm-long “tree lobster” that lives on 1,844 feet high spindle of rock in the middle of Pacific. It was considered extinct until 2001.
30. Praying mantises only have one ear. They are the only species of animals known to have only one ear.
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31Phasmids
Stick insects are actually called Phasmids and the largest species can grow to be 22.3 inches (567mm) long.
32. Bumblebees were originally called humblebees until about the mid 20th Century.
33. Cicadas are the only known creature that can kill bacteria on contact via nothing more than its physical surface structure. They have nanoscale sized pillars on their wings that trap and slowly kill bacteria by pulling their cells apart.
34. Some ants were able to recognize themselves in the mirror, displaying self-cleaning behavior after seeing themselves with a dot painted on their head and failed to do so when the dot was not visible.
35. Fireflies are the most efficient producers of light in the world, even when compared to modern light bulbs.
