Rapid darting flight ('skipping' from flower to flower) is the source of the common name. Stout muscular body and hooked antennae also distinguish skippers from butterflies and moths.
Brazilian wandering spiders don't build webs — they walk the forest floor at night hunting prey.
Huntsman spiders don't build webs — they hunt on foot, with a distinctive fast sideways gait that gave the family its name.
Wings beat 70-80 times per second — fast enough to be invisible to the naked eye.
A mantis shrimp punch hits at 50 mph with the force of a .22 caliber bullet — fast enough to crack aquarium glass.
A mosquito's wings beat 300–600 times per second — the high-pitched whine you hear is the wingbeat frequency.
A mantis strike completes in under 60 milliseconds — three times faster than a human can blink.
