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  • Grasshoppers and crickets are great jumpers. If people could jump as well as them, we could do a 500 foot broad jump!

  • The two pairs of wings on a dragonfly work separately, like helicopter blades. This allows a dragonfly to hover, go backward, or quickly change direction.

  • Some species of butterflies are in danger of extinction. The flowers and plants they need to survive are being destroyed as unoccupied areas are being developed.

  • Bees can't actually talk, but they can tell each other where the nectar is by doing a special wiggle dance.
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Each different kind of animal is a different species. Over one million species of insects have been identified by entomologists.

Extinction is the total disappearance of a species of plant or animal from the earth.

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