{"id":39,"date":"2010-04-09T18:18:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T01:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thaibugs.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2010-04-09T18:18:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T01:18:52","slug":"insect-facts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/?page_id=39","title":{"rendered":"Insect facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>insects are the most numerous and successful creatures on the planet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>insects emerged about 420 million years ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>there are about 10 quintillion insects alive at any one time (10,000,000,000,000,000,000)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>20% of crops grown for human consumption are eaten by insetcs first<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/6th of the world&#8217;s population is suffering from an insect-borne disease<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>during World War II twice as many people died from insect-borne diseases as from the fighting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>malaria (borne by mosquitoes) kills a human being every 12 seconds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>well over 50% of all living organisms, plants and animals are insects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>there are over 750,000 known insect species- those yet to be discovered probably number about 5 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>thanks to George Mc Gavin: Insects (Dorling Kinderley); L.E.O.Braak: Fascinating insects of Southeast Asia (Times Editions)<\/p>\n<p>for interesting facts on particular insects, select the links on the right<\/p>\n<p>DISCLAIMER<\/p>\n<p>I do not guarantee the accuracy of all the facts given. If you&#8217;re thinking of using them in your first grade project or your government-sponsored PhD thesis, check in a reliable source first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; insects are the most numerous and successful creatures on the planet insects emerged about 420 million years ago there are about 10 quintillion insects alive at any one time (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) 20% of crops grown for human consumption are eaten by insetcs first 1\/6th of the world&#8217;s population is suffering from an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}