Insects

95 % of all animal species on our planet are insects. Scientists estimate that between 1 and even 10 million spieces of insects exist. It is estimated that there are around 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects flying, crawling all over our planet.
One of the biggest or maybe better longest insect species is the West Malaysian Pharnacia Serratipes which is some 55 cm long. The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly. Wow, that's really small...
Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects. They can fly at speed of about 100 kmh.
I saw many documentaries about ants. They are really fascinating. They live in colonies. Some colonies are very big and include more than 500 000 ants. Ants do not sleep. When ants find food, they create a chemical trail which is called a pheromone. That way other ants can come to the source of food. How do ants eat? Well, they move their jaws from one side to another like some sort of scissors and that way extract juices from food they found.
I think it is right to talk about elements of natural architecture. Here I for example mean those termite communities. This kind of „buildings“ are some 6 meters high and more than 30 meters wide.
Fleas strongly infulenced our human history. More people died of illness caused by fleas than in all wars that have ever been fought. Here for example I mean bubonic plague which killed about one-third of the population of Europe in the 14th century.
I certainly do not like mosquitoes...Their bites create me lot of problems... Only female mosquitoes bite. Females need the protein from blood to produce their eggs.
Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria, which is actually caused by parasite of the Plasmodium gentus. Each year 350-500 million cases of malaria occur worldwide, and over 1 million people die, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
Well, I'd better stop now. See you tomorrow. Bye, bye!!!