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Earthworm

Slug

Honey Bee

Ant

Ladybird

Spider

Minibeast Facts

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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