Interesting Bug Facts Interesting Bug Facts Certain types of fleas may be trained to perform various feats such as jumping through hoops, juggling, and pulling objects several hundred times their weight. Queens of some ant species have been known to live longer than 15 years. Fossil remains of cockroaches have proven that cockroaches were among the earliest winged insects in existance. Certian large spiders are very powerful and can kill small birds, rats, fish, and other small animals.
Cockroaches consume all types of human food as well as leather, paper, and bone.
Some species of wasps are so small that several may develop in a small insect egg. The Queen termite has been known to lay as many as 30,000 eggs a day. Male ants die after mating.