Only female mosquitoes bite humans
IN an episode of “Matanglawin,” our Sunday morning show on ABS-CBN, “Insectlandia” followed the adventures of a butterfly named Mikee Bahaghari.
It’s “Matanglawin” TV’s way of introducing and sharing tidbits about insects around us. The story is really set in Insectlandia in Clark, Pampanga with Girl trend Mikee in the role of the butterfly. Mikee’s adventure starts with butterflies where their life cycle and their diet of nectar is explained.
Then there are bumblebees. Did you know that adult bumblebees feed on nectar of flowers? The young ones feed on pollen. Both store their food in their body’s hair.
The praying mantis is a predator in the insect world. It traps their prey with their spiked front legs and eat them alive.
There is also the stick insect that’s a herbivore with camouflage abilities.
What about the sense of sight in the insect world? Did you know that a dragonfly has 30,000 eyes while flies have 2,000?
There are also insects that have poor eyesight. They use their antennae or fillers to see like crickets, earwigs, and brown ants.
And then there are beetles. Ladybugs have astounding defensive skills. A ladybug’s black and red spots are unattractive to other insects so they don’t come near ladybugs.
However, if an insect approaches a ladybug, the latter excretes yellow juice that smells putrid.
The mosquito. Did you know that only female mosquitoes bite humans because they need blood to produce eggs? Male mosquitoes suck water and juice from plants.
TRIVIA PA MORE (Various Sources): Quezon City is the second biggest city in the Philippines.
The Bonifacio Monument in Monumento, Caloocan City was designed by a noted Filipino sculptor Guillermo Tolentino
In 1916, an offensive style of passing the ball in a high trajectory to be struck by another player (the set and spike) was introduced. Filipinos developed the “bomba” or kill, and called the hitter a “bomberino.”
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