PEST FACT

Rats contaminate and destroy enough food worldwide each year to feed 200 million people.
A cockroach can live a week without its head. The roach only dies because without a mouth, it can't drink water and dies of thirst.
The total weight of all of the termites in the world is greater than the weight of all the humans in the world.
A cockroach can hold its breath for 40 minutes.
A mouse produces between 40 to 100 droppings per day.
More than 500,000 people seek emergency medical help each year as a result of insect stings.
Female German cockroaches can produce one egg capsule every 20 to 25 days. Each capsule contains from 18 to 48 eggs.
A female housefly can lay up to 600 eggs in her short lifetime.
36% of the reported Hantavirus cases in the United States have resulted in death. Hantavirus is a virus spread by rodents.
The American cockroach has shown a marked attraction to alcoholic beverages, especially beer.
To survive the cold winter months, many insects replace their body water with a chemical called glycerol, which acts as an "antifreeze" against the temperatures.
Wild and domestic rodents have been reported to harbor and spread as many as 200 human pathogens.
A female house mouse can give birth to up to a dozen babies every three weeks. Imagine having as many as 150 babies a year!
A rat can swim for 3 days before it drowns.
Mice feed 15-20 times a day.
Mice can jump a foot high.
Mice can fit through an opening of 2cm.
Conservative estimates place as many as 14,000 people each year in the U.S. bitten by rats.
Mosquitoes transmit some of the worst diseases known to man, including dengue fever, malaria, encephalitis, and yellow fever.
As many as 100 people die as a result of bee and wasp stings each year.
A cockroach that has just shed its skeleton is white with black eyes. After eight hours, it has regained its regular coloring.
Cockroaches are believed to have originated more than 280 million years ago, in the Carboniferous era.
Cockroaches can live without food for one month, but will only survive a week without water.
Cockroaches spend 75% of their time resting.
Cockroaches can run up to three miles in an hour.
A one-day-old baby cockroach, which is about the size of a speck of dust, can run almost as fast as its parents.
Most cockroach species live in the tropics but they can make their home all over the world, including the North and South Poles.
The German cockroach is the most common cockroach found in and around apartments, homes, supermarkets and restaurants.
The Madagascan Hissing Cockroach is one of the few insects who give birth to live young, rather than laying eggs.
The brown-banded cockroach often hides her egg capsules, containing up to 18 eggs, in furniture.
Termites cause as much as $5 billion in damage each year. Formosan termites alone cause over $1 billion in damage every year.
Termites eat non-stop - 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Flies taste what they walk on.
Insects have been present for about 350 million years, while humans have only walked the earth for 130,000 years.
An ant can lift 20 times its own body weight. If a 175-pound man had the comparative strength of an ant, he could lift four tons.
Filth flies can carry diseases such as E. coli, leprosy, typhoid and polio.
Male silk moths can detect female moths up to several miles away.
Fleas can remain frozen for a year and survive.
Caterpillars may have over 4000 separate muscles. Humans have only 792.

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