10 most difficult en­to­mol­o­gy riddles

During the warm season, the worker bee lives only about 38 days. However, during the winter it may live up to about 6 months.

The praying mantis chews its victims in a manner similar to the way mammals do; however, its jaws close sideways, and not from the top or bottom like mammals' mouths. Mantis always eats the head first.

It's a larva of a seven-pointed ladybird. It is very effective in fighting aphids (much more effective than adults), eating up to six hundred a day.

Queen bee is naturally capable of living up to 6 years. However, in modern beekeeping the replacement of mothers takes place every approximately 2 years.

South American Atta ants use leaves to prepare their food. They chew them first and then grow mushrooms on it.

As a hornet enters the hive, a mob of hundreds of honey bees surrounds it in a ball, completely covering it and preventing it from reacting effectively. The bees violently vibrate their flight muscles in much the same way as they do to heat the hive in cold conditions. This raises the temperature in the ball to the critical temperature of 46 °C.

Bed bugs were largely eradicated in the 40s of the last century. However, they have increased in prevalence since 1990s, likely due to pesticide resistance, governmental bans on effective pesticides, and international travel.

All insects have none, two or four wings. Some extinct insects had an additional pair of winglets attached to the first segment of the thorax, for a total of three pairs.

A typical worker sleeps for only one minute, but up to 250 times a day.

The Atlas moth is one of the largest lepidopterans with a wingspan measuring between 25–30 cm (9.8–11.8 in) and a wing surface area of about 400 cm^2 (62 in^2). Attacus atlas, the Atlas moth, is a large saturniid moth endemic to the forests of Asia. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.