Fruit Flies

Those are fruit flies.
The female fruit fly lays 100 eggs 25 times in a year.
That means there are about 1.192x10^41 fruit flies produced.
If you put all the fruit flies together in a compact ball, it would be 96,372,988 miles in diameter.
That is to say the ball would reach from earth to the Sun.
Conservation of matter helps with population control.

Praying Mantis

Praying Mantis in India

Fun Facts:

• This particular insect eats others of its kind
• The female lays hundreds of eggs, but only one or two of them survive
• When the nest hatches, the babies eat the first thing they see, which is often their siblings.
• During the mating/reproduction process, the female frequently chops the males head off.  Why do you think this is? Comment with suggestions.  Answer will be posted later.