First detected in North America in 2019 in British Columbia. As of 2024, eradication efforts in Washington State were declared successful.
Army-ant queens are blind, wingless, and so bloated with eggs they can produce 300,000 in a single 'reproductive bivouac' phase.
An adult bed bug can survive over a year without feeding — at low temperatures, even longer.
Modern bed bug populations have evolved at least 14 distinct mechanisms of insecticide resistance — most cannot be killed by retail pyrethroid sprays.
Bed bugs nearly disappeared from North America by the 1950s, then rebounded dramatically after 2000 — global travel + pyrethroid resistance restored their range within two decades.
Toads that swallow bombardier beetles often vomit them back up alive — 43% of swallowed beetles survive a toad's stomach by detonating inside it.
A developing botfly larva keeps a tiny breathing pore open at the skin surface — block it, and the larva will eventually leave.
