Ticks can grow from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a marble. Approximately 2,000 silkworm cocoons are needed to produce one pound of silk. While gathering food, a bee may fly up to 60 miles in one day.
Ants can lift and carry more than fifty times their own weight.
Mexican Jumping Beans, sometimes sold commercially, actually have a caterpillar of a bean moth inside. It takes about one hundred Monarch Butterflies to weigh an ounce. When the droppings of millions of cattle started ruining the land in Australia, dung beetles were imported to reduce the problem. The queen of a certain termite species can lay 40,000 eggs per day. Honeybees have to make about ten million trips to collect enough nectar for production of one pound of honey.