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The Buzzy Bumbly Bee
Garden Tales(series 1, episode 1)
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Bees can only sting once, then they die.
One bee has to fly about 90,000 miles
(that’s about three times around the world) to make one pound of honey.
The honey bee’s wings stroke at around 200 beats per second.
Honey Bee
The honey bee is the only insect that
produces food eaten by humans.
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The Worm With Ten Hearts And No One To Love
Garden Tales(series 1, episode 2)
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Earthworms don’t have eyes, but
are sensitive to light.Earthworms
have no fewer than five hearts and can have up to ten! Earthworms
don’t have lungs, but instead “breathe”
through their skin (as long as it stays moist).
Earthworms don’t have
teeth, but use a gizzard to grind up pieces
of food.
Earthworm
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Ants don’t have ears. Ants "hear"
by feeling vibrations in the ground through
their feet.
An ant can lift 20 times its own body
weight.
Some queen ants can live for
many years and have millions of
babies!
There are more than
12,000 species of ants around
the world.
Ant
A slug is basically a muscular foot, and the name ‘gastropod’
literally means stomach foot.
A slug’s blood is green!
Slugs play an important
role by eating decomposing vegetation.
Slugs have been present in the British Isles since the
end of the last ice age.
Slug Slugs can live up to six years.
Spiders build different types of web. Some of these are called
‘orb web’, ‘hammock web’
and ‘funnel web’.
As well as having eight legs, most spiders have
eight eyes too!
Spiders tiptoe around their webs on little non-stick hairs attached to their feet.
Garden Spider The web of a garden spider
contains around 30 metres of
silk.
The Little BitLost Ladybird
Garden Tales(series 1, episode 3)
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A ladybird eats thousands of aphids during its lifetime.
When a baby ladybird
hatches, its skin is black
and looks like a rubber tyre!
The spots and bright colours on a ladybird warn
would-be attackers that
this beetle tastes terrible!
They aren’t all red with black spots. There are around
5,000 species of ladybird around
the world.
Ladybird
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