Natural records and facts

The biggest rosewood - Rosewood "shelter Lady" from Tambtauna, Arizona, USA, has a trunk of 101 cm thickness and height of 2.74 m, covers an area of ​​499 m2. It is supported by 68 columns, and can accommodate 150 people under its branches.

Mushrooms

Known all shlyapochnye mushrooms grow for 3-6 days, are killed after 10-14 days. Mushrooms that make up lichens live up to 600 years.

Carob

Carob (Ceratonia) from the family caesalpinioideae always gives the same seeds always weighing exactly 0.2 g These seeds as weights used since antiquity jewelers. This measure is called the carat.

The most frequent lightning strikes in oak, spruce and pine, birch and rarely in little touches poplar, elm, hazel.

On Earth, living as many insects, that each person has roughly 250 million. 80% of species of herbivorous insects, 15% - predators, 5% - bloodsuckers, Swarm, kaloedy. Insects annually consume 25 - 30% of the global harvest. As the analysis of stomach contents female mosquitoes caught around settlements, 80% of these insects feed on the blood of animals.

One bee family prepares for the summer up to 150 kg of honey. To collect 1 kg of honey, bees must visit about 10 million flowers and bring up to 100 thousand. Nectar servings.

Speed ​​Flying bumblebee - 18 kilometers per hour; dragonfly - up to 96 km per hour.

During molting in some birds lost the ability to fly. For example, ducks thus can not fly 20-35 days, swans - almost 1.5 months.

Ostrich - the only bird that has bladder.

Storks (Ciconia) during flights can occasionally fall asleep on the fly for 10-15 minutes.

Lapwing (Vanellus) fairly common bird in our area. Lapwing special feature is its ability to set yourself an enema. To this end, it uses its long beak, which recruited the necessary portions of water.