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The bombardier beetle shoots boiling hot toxic chemicals from its abdomen at predators.
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Insects are the most efficient converters of feed to protein — they produce 80% less greenhouse gas than cattle.
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The aye-aye, a lemur from Madagascar, has a specialized long middle finger for extracting grubs from wood.
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A cockroach can survive a week without its head — it dies eventually from inability to drink water.
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Some plants have evolved to mimic the appearance of female insects to attract male pollinators.
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The praying mantis is the only insect known to have a single ear, located on the underside of its belly.
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The atlas moth has no functional mouth and lives only to reproduce before dying after about a week.
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The Goliath beetle of Africa is the heaviest insect in the world, weighing up to 100 grams.
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Some caterpillars mimic snakes — the hawkmoth caterpillar can inflate its head to resemble a serpent's face.
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The fairyfly, the world's smallest insect, is 0.139 mm long — smaller than a single-celled paramecium.
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