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Do Bugs Sleep?

  • November 12, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Insects don’t sleep the way we do, but they do take rest breaks. Some slip into a state called “torpor,” probably the most similar to human sleep, in which they don’t move very much and are less aware of things around them.

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