10 facts about the mosquito

1. Did you know it is only female mosquitoes who bit humans and animals for blood? It's true. And they don't actually drink or feed on the blood. The females need the blood to be able to produce eggs.
2. Mosquitoes actually eat sweets, mainly nectar and juices from plants.
3. Mosquito eggs are laid in standing water. When the eggs hatch, larva come forth that will eventually become pupae and then an adult mosquito.
4. In the wild, adult male mosquitoes can live up to three weeks, but most often only survive about a week. Adult female mosquitoes can live for as long as three months.
5. Scientists estimates there are more than 3,000 species of mosquitoes throughout the world.
6. During the lifetime of a female mosquito, she can have as many as 3,000 offspring.
7. Scientists have found that mosquitoes rarely travel further than one mile from where they are born.
8. The oldest fossil of a mosquito that resembles modern mosquitoes was found in a piece of amber in Canada. It is believed to be nearly 80 million years old.
9. Distant insect relatives to the mosquito are believed to have existed as long as 170 million years ago.
10. The word "mosquito" was first known to be used in English in 1583, though the word itself originates from the Spanish word "mosquito" which means "little fly."

10 facts about ladybugs

1. Ladybugs are called ladybugs only in North America, mainly in the United States. In other parts of the world, they are more commonly called ladybirds. They are also known as ladybeetles and ladybird beetles.
2. Their main food source is generally other insects, especially plant lice and plant parasites, though there are rare sub-species of ladybugs that eat plants.
3. These small insects are actually members of the beetle family.
4. Ladybugs have been known to effect wine and grape juices in a negative manner. How? When grapes are harvested, sometimes ladybugs are pulled into where the grapes are pressed. If there are a lot of ladybugs introduced into the wine or juice, there occurs what is known as "ladybug taint." Basically the wine or juice has an awful flavor.
5. Ladybugs secret a fluid from their joints that tastes bad to other creatures. This not only causes the "ladybird taint" mentioned above, but it's also a defensive mechanism to keep other creatures from eating ladybugs.
6. Ladybugs hibernate when winter comes along.
7. Ladybugs are actually born as a black larva. They eventually enter a pupal stage, much like butterflies, and when they emerge they have their colorful wings.
8. These insects beat their wings at 85 per seconds when flying.
9. The average life span of a ladybug in the wild is two to three years.
10. Ladybugs are often "farmed" or "harvested." Basically, some farmers breed ladybugs to create a large amount of ladybugs. Why? Because ladybugs eat other insects that are destructive to crops.

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10 facts about seahorses

1. Science knows of almost 50 different seahorse species throughout the world.
2. Seahorses, unlike most fish, do not have scales. Instead, they have bony plates beneath their thin skins.
3. The oldest fossil of a seahorse is a distant relative found in Slovenia that is estimated to be about 13 million years old.
4. In traditional Chinese herbology, dried seahorses are considered an aphrodisiac and good for kidney problems. The seahorses are dried and ground into powders which can then be placed in pill forms.
5. In seahorses, it is the male that actually carries the fertilized eggs to gestation.
6. The number of young seahorses who are born from each father varies upon the size and species of seahorse. Some seahorses only expel a half dozen or so baby seahorses, while the larger species can expel as many as 1,500 baby seahorses.
7. Seahorses generally eat small shrimp or other small crustaceans. They have been known to diet on extremely small fish at times.
8. Wild seahorses do not fare well in captivity. Disease is one culprit, but wild seahorses are also thought to be under immense stress when limited to their surroundings. However, seahorses bred in captivity fare much better.
9. Dried seahorses on a stick are not uncommon foods to be found in China as street food.
10. The slowest moving fish in the world is the dwarf seahorse, two inches long, which reportedly only swims approximately five feet per hour.

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10 facts about komodo dragons

1. Komodo dragons can grow to nearly 10 feet, or three meters, in length. And they can weigh as much as 300 pounds, or approximately 135 kilograms.
2. These great lizards can live as long as fifty years, though they tend to average about 30 years.
3. The bite of komodo dragons is deadly, but not because of any poison. The saliva of komodo dragons is full of as many as 50 different types of bacteria, and this usually causes blood poison within any creatures bitten. Death commonly results within 24 hours, and that's if the bitten creature actually survives the initial bite.
4. These giant lizards are naturally found on only four islands in the world, all within Indonesia. The four islands are Komodo, Rinca, Flores and Gila Motang.
5. Komodo dragons usually live alone. They generally only gather for breeding and sometimes feeding.
6. The meals of this reptile mainly consist of carrion. That's right, dead animals. Though sometimes they will capture smaller prey for a meal.
7. As can be expected, this reptile is the largest living species of lizard found on Earth today. But believe it or not, it is not the largest reptile found on the planet. That honor goes to the saltwater crocodile, which can grow to 20 feet in length. That's more than six meters.
8. Komodo dragons were not discovered by scientists until the year 1910.
9. Female komodo dragons lay about 20 eggs at a time, which is once a year in September.
10. Young komodo dragons live in trees to protect themselves from predators and other ground dangers. They usually grow to maturity within three to five years, by which time they are far to heavy to remain in trees.

Theories of time travel simplified

Technically, all of us are time travelers. We move through time slowly, seconds at a time like a worm sliding forward an inch at a time. But will it ever be possible to ever travel backward in time? Or forward in time by leaps and bounds, by months and years?

Possibly. Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity left the door open for the potentiality of time travel by showing that distance and time are not absolutes.

But how could time travel possibly work? Most are based on Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity.

Wormholes

Some scientists, include Kip Thorne of the California Institute for Technology and Richard Gott with Princeton University, speculate that wormholes could exist that could sort of be used as shortcuts in time and space. In theory, a person would be able to jump through one of these wormhole tunnels and come out on the other side in a different place and time. One big downside is that to create such a wormhole, huge amounts of energy would be needed, more than even several suns could provide.

Speed of Light

If it were possible for a person or a vehicle to move the speed of light, that person or vehicle would in a sense be traveling through time, according to principles of relativity. By the time the traveler returned, from the point of view of anyone left behind a longer time would have passed than had passed for the traveler. This is also called time dilation. But in this form of time travel, the traveler would only be able to move into the future.

Faster-Than-Light Speeds

If someone were able to move faster than the speed of light, in theory at the speed of light they would reach a point where time did not exist. Then, by moving faster than the speed of light, they would move into what some call negative time. In other words, they would be moving backward in time.

10 facts about honey bees

1. While science recognizes about 20,000 different species of bees, there are only seven generally recognized honey bee species.
2. Female honey bees do all the work, thus are called workers. Then there's the queen bee. The male bees are drones, mainly used for reproductive purposes.
3. Honey bees are the only surviving insects from the genus Apis. There have been other insects in the genus Apis, but none survive to this day.
4. Science generally accepts that the ancestors of the honey bees first formed in Asia. The oldest known bee ancestor in the fossil record is a bee discovered preserved in amber in Burma; it is believed to be approximately 100 million years old.
5. Male honey bees, called drones, do not have stingers.
6. Africanized honey bees are not natural. They were created by accident in Brazil. They are often called killer bees because they tend to be more aggressive than other honey bees, but they do not survive cold weather well and seem to be more prone to disease.
7. Honey bees thrive best at about 80 degress Fahrenheit. Below 50 degrees Fahrenheit and honey bees will stop flying and return to their hive.
8. During winter and other cold weather spells, bees cluster together in the hive and shiver and flap their wings quickly in order to raise the inner hive temperature and to keep the queen warm.
9. Beeswax is secreted by worker bees, females, and used to build a bee comb.
10. Honey bees communicate mostly through what is often called a bee dance, basically moving around. Honey bees also communicate, but generally to a lesser extent, through pheromones and other bodily scents.

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