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The female Northern water snakes are usually much larger than males.

Despite their tiny bodies, house mice eat between 15 and 20 times a day.

The European starling has a large local repertoire and can mimic the sounds of other birds.

Bold jumping spiders are known for capturing preys larger than their own size.

Odorous house ants may develop huge colonies containing thousands of workers and numerous queens. This species may be difficult to control and does not feed much on ant baits.

One bee has to fly about 90,000 miles – three times around the globe – to make one pound of honey.

These hard-working crpenter ants can lift up to seven times their own weight with their teeth.

Long-bodied cellar spiders are not dangerous spiders and actually are quite beneficial in that they have been known to capture and eat other spiders, including even black widow and brown recluse spiders

House centipedes can actually have anywhere from 15-177 pairs of legs with one pair per segment, depending on the species. Interestingly, centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs.

The length of a copperhead’s fangs is related to the length of the snake — the longer the snake, the longer the fangs.