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Fireflies aren’t actually flies at all — they’re a special type of beetle that belongs to the family Lampyridae!

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Fireflies aren’t actually flies at all — they’re a special type of beetle that belongs to the family Lampyridae!
Firefly larvae are predators that hunt and eat snails, slugs, and other small insects!
Hornets build nest cells that look like neat hexagons, but they don’t use measuring tools.
Many farmers welcome ladybugs because they eat pests that damage crops!
The patterns on butterfly wings are made up of thousands of tiny scales, each about the size of a human hair split 100 times!