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.