There are lots of exciting things you can find if you go on a bug safari in your garden!

Bugs are fascinating creatures, as you'll discover in our 45 cool facts about bugs!

What Is the Difference Between Insects and Bugs?

Not all insects are bugs, but all bugs are insects.

It's a bit confusing, right? So to make things simpler: It's a bit confusing, right? So to make things simpler: among the 10 quintillion insects in the world, not all of it are bugs but these bugs are all insects. Although it's acceptable to interchange the two, true bugs lack teeth and have tough fore wings. They also have a stylet, a straw-like mouth that is intended for sucking. Insects, on the other hand, have three-part bodies and have three pairs of legs.

1.
There are about 91,000 different kinds (species) of insects in the United States. In the world, some 1.5 million different kinds (species) have been named.

2.
Insects have been present for about 350 million years, and humans for only 300,000 years.

3.
About one-third of all insect species are carnivorous, and most hunt for their food rather than eating decaying meat or dung.

4.
A ladybird might eat more than 5,000 insects in its lifetime!

5.
Ladybirds sometimes play dead to avoid predators.

6.
Fruit flies were the first living creatures to be sent into space.

7.
Houseflies find sugar with their feet, which are 10 million times more sensitive than human tongues.

8.
True flies have only one pair of wings, and sometimes, none at all. A hind pair of "wings" is reduced to balancing organs called halteres.

9.
Dragonflies have been on earth for 300 million years!

10.
There are 36 species of dragonfly found in the UK.

11.
A bee's wings beat 190 times a second, that's 11,400 times a minute.

12.
A single honeybee colony can produce around 100kg of honey each year – that's 220 jars!

13.
While gathering food, a bee may fly up to 60 miles in one day.

14.
Honeybees have to make about ten million trips to collect enough nectar for production of one pound of honey.

15.
A hornet's favourite food is a bee!

16.
Wasps feeding on fermenting juice have been known to get "drunk" and pass out.

17.
Butterflies taste with their feet.

18.
It takes about one hundred Monarch Butterflies to weigh an ounce.

19.
The red postman butterfly develops its own poison by eating toxic plants!

20.
Blow flies are the first kind of insect attracted to an animal carcass following death.

21.
The male silk moth is estimated to "smell" chemicals of female silk moths in the air at the ratio of a few hundred molecules among 25 quintillion (25,000,000,000,000,000,000) molecules in a cubic centimeter of air.

22.
A sea skater's leg hair traps air, enabling it to float on water.

23.
Large groups of fireflies sometimes flash in unison.

24.
Caterpillars have 12 eyes!

25.
The stag beetle is the largest species of insect to be found in the UK.

26.
One dung beetle can drag 1,141 times its weight – that's like a human pulling six double-decker buses!

27.
When the droppings of millions of cattle started ruining the land in Australia, dung beetles were imported to reduce the problem.

28.
There are nearly as many species of ants (8,800) as there are species of birds (9,000) in the world.

29.
The queen of a certain termite species can lay 40,000 eggs per day.

30.
Ants can lift and carry more than fifty times their own weight.

31.
Bulldog ants can leap seven times the length of their bodies!

32.
Grasshoppers existed before dinosaurs!

33.
Grasshoppers have special organs in their hind legs that store energy for jumping.

34.
Approximately 2,000 silkworm cocoons are needed to produce one pound of silk.

35.
An ant-eating assassin bug piles its victims onto its body to scare predators.

36.
To breathe underwater, the water scorpion uses a snorkel-like tube on its abdomen.

37.
Mosquitos are attracted to smelly feet!

38.
Some male stoneflies do push-ups to attract a mate.

39.
Damselflies have been on earth for more than 300 million years.

40.
Greater water boatmen breathe through their bottom!

41.
Male giraffe weevils use their long necks to fight each other.

42.
Ticks can grow from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a marble.

43.
Mexican Jumping Beans, sometimes sold commercially, actually have a caterpillar of a bean moth inside.

44.
A particular Hawk Moth caterpillar from Brazil, when alarmed, raises its head and inflates its thorax, causing it to look like the head of a snake.

45.
To survive the cold of winter months, many insects replace their body water with a chemical called glycerol, which acts as an "antifreeze" against the temperatures.

Sources
National Geographic Kids