Insect Superpowers: The Hidden World

Bombardier beetles explode boiling acid from their butts like tiny rocket engines. That's just the

start. Fact one: Trap jaw ants bite at 145 miles per hour,

launching themselves like living catapults. Fact two: Cicadas pee so hard physicists invented

new fluid dynamics to explain their urine jets. Fact three: Honeybees have REM

sleep and dreams, getting grumpy and making poor decisions when tired. Fact four:

Dragonflies have a 95 percent hunting success rate. Fighter pilots study their neural systems.

Fact five: The twist? Freshwater insect populations are actually exploding, defying the apocalypse

narrative.