Sunday, May 8, 2011

How fast can insects fly?

Faster than you can run! Yellow jacket wasps can fly 15 miles (24 km) an hour. That’s fast enough to catch you if you disturb a nest. Dragonflies are probably the fastest, at about 60 miles (96 km) an hour. A no-see-um midge holds the record for wing speed. It flaps its wings nearly 63,000 times a minute!

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