The American burying beetle was downlisted from endangered to threatened in 2020 — one of few US Endangered Species Act successes for an insect.
Army-ant queens are blind, wingless, and so bloated with eggs they can produce 300,000 in a single 'reproductive bivouac' phase.
First detected in North America in 2019 in British Columbia. As of 2024, eradication efforts in Washington State were declared successful.
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.
