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Welcome to ButlerWebs' General Webs for
Animals, Pets & Critters - our special page for:
Insects & Bugs
Complete with Insect & Bug Humor, Jokes & Cartoons
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Insects & Bugs in
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Did You
Know? Insect Fun Facts
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There are 800,000 different kinds of insects.
- Right now there are
approximately 10 Quintrillion insects alive on Earth. --
Submitted by CYGoalie00
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The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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(From drinking little bottles of...?)
(Did taxpayers pay for this research??)
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Tips &
Tricks...
Ants are said to never cross a chalk line. So if you've got
ants, draw a line on the floor with chalk or wherever the ants are
coming in and see for yourself! They won't cross the line.
Baking soda works, too!
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A bee can haul 300 times its own weight.
That is equivalent to a human pulling a 30-ton transport truck
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In their lifetime, 150 bees will gather only 25 milliliters of
honey.
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100's of Jokes
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A Little Bit of Bee Humor...
Did Noah keep his bees in archives?
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There was a crowd of bees flying around one day. These bees were most
peculiar. They were powered by gasoline, rather than the allergenic goodies that bees usually eat.
As the crowd flew along, periodically a bee or two would start to sputter; it would fly down to a gas station,
drink up the gas spilled in fueling a car, and then fly up and rejoin the crowd.
One bee began to sputter a little, but flew right by an open gas station. As he passed the second station, he was
coughing badly, but still he flew on.
Finally, as he was on his last fumes, he dove down to a station and gassed up.
When he rejoined the crowd, his neighbor challenged him: "Look, you passed right by an open station when you
started to get low. You passed another station when you were perilously low. And finally, you ran out of gas just
in time to glide into that last station. Are you crazy?"
He replied, "Well, it's like this. The first station was a Gulf station. I really don't like Gulf at all. The
second station was a Texaco station. That's even worse. But the third station was an Esso station. Let me tell
you, Esso is my brand of gasoline.
You know what they say don't you...There's an Esso Bee in every crowd!"
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What kind of bees make milk?
Boobies!
Submitted by Natalia
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Do they wear "Odor Eaters?")
(Oh, geeze...)
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Butterfly on our flowers - Summer 2002
Photo by ButlerWebs
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Butterfly/Moth on the pines
Photo by ButlerWebs
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A man goes into a pet shop and tells the owner that he wants
to buy a pet that can do everything. The shop owner suggests a faithful dog.
The man replies, "Come on, a dog?"
The owner says, "How about a cat?"
The man replies, "No way! A cat certainly can't do everything.
I want a pet that can do everything!"
The shop owner thinks for a minute, then says, "I've got it! A centipede!"
The man says, "A centipede? I can't imagine a centipede doing
everything, but okay, I'll try a centipede."
He gets the centipede home and says to the centipede, "Clean the kitchen."
Thirty minutes later, he walks into the kitchen and it's immaculate! All the dishes and silverware have been washed,
dried, and put away; the counter-tops cleaned; the appliances sparkling; the floor waxed. He's absolutely amazed.
He says to the centipede, "Go clean the living room."
Twenty minutes later, he walks into the living room. The carpet
has been vacuumed; the furniture cleaned and dusted; the pillows on the sofa plumped; plants watered. The man thinks to himself,
"This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen. This really is a pet that can do everything!"
Next he says to the centipede, "Run down to the corner and get me
a newspaper."
The centipede walks out the door. 10 minutes later...no centipede.
20 minutes later... no centipede. 30 minutes later...no centipede. By this point the man is wondering what's going on. So he goes to
the front door, opens it... and there's the centipede sitting right outside the door.
The man says, "Hey! I sent you down to the corner store 45 minutes
ago to get me a newspaper. What's the matter?"
The centipede says, "I'm going, I'm going, I'm just putting on my shoes!"
Submitted by SandyD
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The Summer of 2002 was the time for our 17-year
cicadas or locusts here in the Butler County PA area of western
Pennsylvania. We found them very interesting and got a couple of good
photographs - including one as it was emerging from the larva stage.
Photos by ButlerWebs.
Cicada Emerging from Larva Stage - Summer 2002
Photo by ButlerWebs
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A cockroach will live
nine days without its head,
before it starves to death. (Creepy!)
Submitted by Sassy
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Who Has Been Here Longer, the Cockroach or the Dragonfly?
The roach was on this planet about 280 million years ago, and the
dragonfly about 320 million years ago. They are what you really can call old-timers. There are about 3,000 species of roaches in the
world, and they can live almost anywhere except in extremely cold regions. Their diet includes any food that man eats and also clothing
and wallpaper. You probably know they are one of the fastest runners if you ever tried to smack one with a slipper. Generally the roach is
considered a pest, but its ego spells its doom. Roaches like to groom themselves by scraping foreign particles and dust from their bodies
with their legs, then drawing the legs and feelers through the mouth to get rid of the powder. Thus, if we spray the roach's surroundings
with insect powder, we will soon find the bug on his back, heading for his favorite crevice in the sky.
On the other hand, the dragonfly is our friend, because flies and
mosquitoes are to it what apple pie and ice cream are to us. And like us, the dragonfly never tires of its delicacy. Its bulging eyes can spot
an insect 60 feet away, and it can catch the insect with a swoop of 60 miles an hour. When he arranges his six spiny legs in flight in
the shape of a woven basket to catch an insect, the object of his gustatory desire doesn't have a chance. It is even devoured while in
flight.
Author Unknown
Submitted by SandyD
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If you could count the number of times a
cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the
correct temperature in Celcius degrees.
On the other hand you can always look at a thermometer.
Submitted by Bubba
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The flea can jump 350 times
its body length.
It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
Submitted by Sassy
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Would a fly without wings be called a walk?
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George Carlin
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Mayflies live only one day as
an adult.
During that day they molt twice, mate, and lay eggs in water.
Submitted by Cicec
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I stopped at a friends house the other day and found him
stalking around with a flyswatter.
When I asked if he had gotten any flies, he answered, "Yeah, 3 males and 2 females."
Curious, I inquired as to how he could tell the difference.
He answered, "3 were on a beer can and 2 were on the phone."
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Q: What's the difference between a newspaper and a TV?
A: Have you ever tried swatting a fly with a TV?
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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a
banana.
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"Time's fun when you're having
flies."
-- Kermit the Frog'
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Tips &
Tricks...
Flies or bees bothering you?
Spray them with hairspray and they will take a quick dive.
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Grasshoppers hear through their knees. -- Submitted by Bubba
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100's of Jokes
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A Little Bit of Grasshopper
Humor...
A grasshopper walks into a
saloon. The bartender stares in amazement as the grasshopper says,
"I'd like a drink, please."
The bartender's jaw drops. He's finally able to say,
"Did you know we have a drink named after you?"
The grasshopper replies, "You have a drink named Irving?"
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Lady Bugs are actually called "Asian Lady
Beetles."
They are native of eastern Asia.
The Lady Bug (Beetle) was introduced to the
United States by the U. S. Department of Agriculture as a biological control
agent. The tree-dwelling insect can live up to three years. They are
a predator of aphids and other pests. They do not bite, sting, carry human
disease or feed on wood, clothing or food. They can become a nuisance to
homeowners in the Fall when they come inside seeking warmth. Because they
are so beneficial, they should be released back outside and not killed.
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Did You
Know?
If you like to sit outside eating bananas in your
favorite blue shirt, you're about to become a mosquito's
best friend. They're twice as attracted to blue
than any other color and appear to love people who've
just eaten bananas.
Source: Cracker
Barrel Old Country Store 2001 Summer In America
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Inspiration &
Motivation
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Thoughts...
"People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept in a room with a single mosquito." |
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A male emperor moth can smell
a female emperor moth up to 7miles away.
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Some caterpillars and moths avoid being eaten
because they resemble bird droppings.
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Moth on the pines Summer 2002
Photo by ButlerWebs
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Moth on our steps Summer 2002
Photo by ButlerWebs
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Did You
Know?
- Ever hear
that the female praying mantis eats the heads of their
mates when
copulating? This is not necessarily true.
See the real story at Urban Legends: www.snopes.com/critters/wild/mantis1.htm
- It is
NOT illegal to kill a praying mantis. (Some of
us who grew up in the Philadelphia and New Jersey
areas in the 60's might have believed that...)
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A tarantula can live up to two years without food. Some of them eat birds.
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Sea Spiders have most of their stomachs and
reproductive organs in their legs.
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Submitted by CYGoalie00
Did You
Know?
The
Daddy-Long-Leg is NOT the world's most poisonous
animal. It's not poisonous at all. In
fact, it's not even technically a spider. The world's most poisonous animal is the South American poison dart frog or the box jellyfish.
See the real story at Urban Legends: www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.htm
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Among one species of termite, the queen has an
abdomen that weighs over 1500 times the weight of the rest of her body. - Submitted by CYGoalie00
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100's of Jokes
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A Little Bit of Humor...
A termite walked past a bar and said,
"Hey, is the
bar tender in there?"
Submitted by Lettie
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