Rodents Facts
- The average adult squirrel needs about a pound of food per week.
- Rodents are thought to be responsible for more deaths than all the wars over the last 1000 years.
- Rats have a bite force of 24000 psi, 160 times greater than that of a human bite!!
- It’s estimated that a single cute little house mouse leaves behind 3,000 microdroplets of urine a day.
- Squirrels are among the top causes of power outages across the U.S.
- The amount of food destroyed by rodents each year is enough to feed over 200 Million people.
- In the U.S. alone, rats cause roughly $20 billion in damage to homes, businesses, and agriculture every year.
- Squirrels have four front teeth that grow continuously, at a rate of about six inches per year which must be kept in check by constant gnawing.
Insect Facts
- Termites have been around for more than 240 million years. Homeowners suffer an average $7,900 of damage before realizing they have termites. Termites release an estimated 176 billion pounds of “greenhouse gas” per year. Termites not only damage woods but now they are also damaging wires and cables.
- The fall armyworm has been reported to cause annual losses of US$600 million in Brazil alone.
- According to the National Pest Management Association (NPMA), it is estimated that termites cause more than $5 billion in property damage each year.
- Termites are the most successful groups of insects on the Earth. Worldwide there are around 2,600 species of termites.
- Termites eat non-stop, 24 hours a day, seven days a week!
- The termites have the ability to produce 10000 new termites each year. This estimates out to be at least four termites each minute!
- Ants can lift 10-50 times their body weight.
- Bedbug’s bites can be so harmful leading to infection and even death.
- Bedbugs are the hearty suckers and can live up to 1 year without any meal.
- Bed bugs can survive temperatures of nearly freezing to 122 degrees.
- Ants can sense the Earth’s magnetic field, and use it for navigation.
- Fire ants inflict approximately $5 billion of damage in North America alone every year.
Birds Facts
- One pigeon can deposit over 11 kilograms pounds of droppings per year!
- An estimated 672 million birds are exposed to pesticides every year in the United States from agricultural use alone. Amongst which nearly 10% i.e. 67 million birds die!
- The population of pigeons in New York City alone is estimated to exceed 1 million birds.
