A dragonfly is one of the fastest fliers among all insects.
Dragonflies can zip, hover, and even fly backwards better than most other bugs.
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The Goliath beetle is one of the heaviest insects in the world.
This big beetle can weigh about as much as a small apple.
An ant can carry things much heavier than itself.
Ants are super strong for their size and can lift crumbs many times their own weight.
A bee visits many flowers and helps them grow into fruit.
As bees gather nectar, they carry pollen from flower to flower, helping plants make seeds and fruit.
Fireflies make their own light to blink in the dark.
They flash their glowing tails to send messages to other fireflies on summer nights.
A grasshopper can jump many times the length of its own body.
If you could jump like a grasshopper, you could leap right over a bus.
A ladybug's bright red color tells birds to leave it alone.
The spots and red color are a way of saying "I don't taste good," so hungry birds fly on by.
The dung beetle is the strongest insect for its size.
A dung beetle can pull more than 1,000 times its own body weight — a bit like one person pulling six full buses at once.
Ants don't have lungs.
Ants are far too small for lungs. Instead, air flows in and out through tiny holes along the sides of their bodies, called spiracles, carrying oxygen straight to where it's needed.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Butterflies have taste sensors on their feet, so just by standing on a leaf or flower they can tell whether it's a good place to lay eggs or a tasty spot to drink from.
Honeybees can recognize human faces.
Despite having a brain about the size of a sesame seed, honeybees can learn and remember individual human faces. They use a process called 'configural processing' — looking at how features like eyes, nose, and mouth are arranged together, rather than one feature at a time.