Random Creepy Facts About Bugs Nobody Really Wants To Think About (12 items)

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  (#2) If You're A Regular Coffee Drinker, You Might Drink 130,000+ Insect Parts A Year

  Everyone's heard the myth about people accidentally eating spiders in their sleep, but you don't have to be unconscious to accidentally eat a bug. Insects are pretty much a part of our daily diet. The FDA has a legal allowance of how many bugs can end up in your food before it's a problem.

  For example, regular coffee drinkers are legally allowed to ingest as many as 136,000 insect parts every year. If you consume any products made from wheat flour, you're eating as many as 91,000 insect parts annually.
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  (#4) You Almost Certainly Have Demodex Mites Living On Your Face

  The bad news is there are demodex mites on your face right now. The good news is that they're harmless. There are two species of mite that live exclusively on our faces: Demodex folliculorum and Demodex brevis. They aren't insects but arthropods and closely related to insects like spiders and scorpions.

  These creatures inhabit two different environments on your face. D. folliculorum tend to make their homes inside facial pores. D. brevis lives in your sebaceous glands, which is responsible for excreting certain oils from your hair follicles.
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  (#10) Humans Have Used Insects As Tools During Armed Conflicts

  Human civilizations have tried to weaponize bugs countless times in the past, with varying degrees of success. Insects have been so common in armed conflicts that entomologists broke their usage into three distinct groups: insects as tools, insects as disease carriers, and insects as crop destroyers.

  In the Second Parthian War, scorpions and disease-causing beetles were lobbed at the opposing Roman army, poisoning their troops and causing scarring skin lesions. The United States was accused of using insects in the Vietnam War to cause crop failure, and some societies have even launched plague-carrying insects into enemy territory. The use of insects as tools of armed conflict is also advancing into the 21st century with a potential fourth category of insect warfare. The study of insects is being increasingly used in advanced military technology, including drones and genetic warfare.
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  (#8) Ants Are Smart Enough To Engage In Organized Conflict, And They're Shockingly Human About It

  Ants are among the few insects to engage in organized conflict, setting armies against armies in a fight to the end. There are roughly 10,000 species of ants, and each one goes about clashes in its own unique way.

  Ant conflicts can be as barbaric as ours: Cannibalism, looting, and executions are all commonly practiced among ants. Army ants fight in a way similar to the ancient Roman legions. Some species use tactical deception to make themselves appear more powerful than their enemies, and weaker ants are used as cannon fodder on the front lines.
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  (#11) It Would Take More Than 1 Million Mosquitoes At A Single Moment To Completely Drain Your Body Of Blood

  Ever wondered how many mosquito bites it would take to drain you of your blood? The staff at Business Insider has the answer. They based their figures on the Asian tiger mosquito, an invasive species in North America. These mosquitoes typically draw about 0.000005 liters of blood at a time, and human bodies have about 5.5 liters of blood.

  If they were to bite all at once, you'd need 1.1 million Asian tiger mosquitoes to completely drain you. Then again, you only need to lose about 20% of your blood before organ failure begins to set in, so technically a mere 220,000 mosquitoes would be enough to do the job.
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  (#5) If You Were In A Subway Station With A Madagascar Hissing Cockroach, Its Hissing Could Be Mistaken For An Oncoming Train

  Cockroaches are pretty much universally loathed - the kings of the gross bug world - and Madagascar hissing cockroaches are a step above the rest. These giant roaches are named after the hissing sound they make when they feel threatened. It's not only an awful noise, but a dangerously loud one as well.

  The hiss can be as loud as 90 decibels by some estimates, which is as loud as a moving subway. Sounds greater than 85 dB are considered harmful to the human ear.

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