Pest Trivia
Interesting Facts
-The average roach-infested household contains more than 20,000 roaches.
-If you weighed all the ants in the world, the total weight is more than all the people put together.
-A queen bee lays one egg per minute, for a total of 1,500 per day, and 200,000 per year.
-Bats are protected in New Jersey and cannot be killed. Removal and exclusion techniques are used.
-If a 175 pound man had the comparative strength as an ant, he'd be able to lift 9,000 pounds.
-You are never more than 7 feet from a spider at all times.
-Only female bees and wasps can sting. Males do not have an egg-laying "ovipositor" that becomes modified to a stinger on females.
-Honeybees do not actually make honey. They covert the nectar they gather from flowers then allow it to dehydrate.
-When disturbed, many ants spray acid from their abdomen. More than 150 species of birds have been observed picking up the ants and placing them on their feathers. The acid sprayed from the ants, kills mites on the birds.
-A daddy longleg spider is not actually a spider. Its real name is a Harvestman.
