1. Insects and Minibeasts

2. Ants can lift 50 times their own weight!

3. But the honey bee, which can lift 300 times its weight !

4. The average mosquito has 47 teeth!

5. Fleas can leap 800 times farther than their body length!

6. There are over 3000 species of stick insects!

7. All wasps die in winter, except the queen.

8. Grasshoppers sing by rubbing their hind legs against their front wings; crickets sing by rubbing their front wings together.

9. The largest moth in the world is the Atlas Moth. It has a wingspan of 30cm (1ft) and is so big it is often mistaken for a bird!

10. Spiders are not insects.