Answers to Outside the Box Puzzles from page 48 1. All mixed up 2. Incline 3. Out of time 4. Doing time 5. Pay cheque 6. Eat up Fast Facts Bzzzzzz!!!!! Canada’s busiest insect is the honey bee. ▶▶In early spring, a colony of honey bees can include approximately 10,000 – 15,000 bees. ▶▶In the summer, a colony will grow to 50,000 – 80,000. ▶▶A honey bee flies up to 24 km/hour and its wings beat 200 times per second. ▶▶A typical colony has only one queen that may lay 2,000 eggs per day during her busy spring and summer season. ▶▶A hive can contain 60,000 worker bees (undeveloped females) that do all the work, together with several hundred drones (male bees) whose only role is mating with the queen. ▶▶It takes 556 worker bees to gather nectar for a pound of honey. ▶▶The average life of a honey bee during the working season is about six weeks. ▶▶A bee has four wings and a brain the size of a sesame seed. ▶▶Bees have been producing honey from flowering plants for as long as 20 million years. ▶▶Honey bees must gather nectar from two million flowers to make one pound of honey. ▶▶The honey bee is the only insect that produces food eaten by man. ▶▶During a single collection trip, the bee visits 50 to 100 flowers. Dandelions 101 ▶▶The English name “dandelion” is derived from the French “tooth of the lion,” named for the weed’s jagged-edged leaves. ▶▶A cup of dandelion greens provides 112% of a person’s recommended daily amount of Vitamin A, 535% of the recommended daily amount of Vitamin K, and other nutrients such as calcium, iron and magnesium. ▶▶Every part of the plant is useful: root, leaves and flowers can be used for food, medicine and dye for colouring. ▶▶Up until the 1800s, people pulled grass out of their lawns to make room for dandelions and other useful “weeds” such as chickweed and chamomile. ▶▶Dandelions have one of the longest flowering seasons of any plant. ▶▶Seeds are often carried as far as 8 km from their origin. ▶▶There are about 100 species of dandelions. ▶▶The plant can be used in the production of wine and root beer. ▶▶The root of the dandelion can be a substitute for coffee. ▶▶Dandelions are part of the daisy family. Words of Wisdom Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. Oprah Winfrey Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt and dance like no one is watching. Randall G. Leighton When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. Alexander Graham Bell To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde Wild Kingdom Weird and wonderful things in the animal world. ▶▶The heart of a shrimp is located in its head. ▶▶Elephants are the only animal that can’t jump. ▶▶Bats always turn left when leaving a cave. ▶▶Capuchin monkeys pee on their hands to wash their feet. ▶▶Dragonflies and damselflies form a heart with their tails when they mate. ▶▶A grizzly bear’s bite is strong enough to crush a bowling ball. ▶▶Whitetail deer can sprint at speeds up to 30 mph. ▶▶Anteaters don’t have teeth. ▶▶Male ring-tailed lemurs will “stink fight” by wafting scent at each other. ▶▶Wombat poop is cube-shaped. ▶▶Horses are distantly related to rhinoceroses and tapirs. ▶▶Otters have the world’s thickest fur. 54 | www.snowbirds.org
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