.Saturday, March 14, 2009
Common Insects
Mosquitoes* According to studies, majority of human death caused by animals is due to mosquito bite
* Mosquitoes feet are irritated by citronella, so they hate it much.
* Mosquitoes will likely bite children and blondes.
* Don’t worry about male mosquitoes, only the females bite.
They need blood protein to produce eggs.
* It would take more than a million mosquito bite to sap all your blood.
Houseflies* Common diseases such typhoid fever, dysentery and cholera are usually associated with a housefly.
* The house fly life span at the most 21 days.
* The housefly complex eye has more than 4,000 lenses.
* House flies hairy and sticky toe pads to walk upside down on the ceiling.
* A house fly "hums" in the key of F and beats its wings over 20,000 beat a minute.
Bees* 15 miles per hour at an average, that‘s how fast a bee can fly.
* A worker bee can generate 1/12th teaspoon of honey in its entire life span.
* In order to produce a tablespoon of honey, bees need to be busy sipping the nectar from 2,000 flowers.
* More human death are attributed to honeybees sting than all poisonous snakes bite.
* A bee’s buzz is generated by moving its wings at a rate of 11,400 strokes per minute.
* A bee can sting only once then dies after it pulled-out its stinger.
Ants* Believe it or not, ants stay awake all their life.
* Ants have to move their jaws sideways just to chew its meal.
* An ant colony can housed half a million individuals.
* Amazon ants (red ants found in the western U.S.) who are good warriors have to snatch other ants larvae to make them slaves. In so doing, Amazon ants can’t survive without their slaves.
* Certain honey-pot ants become a colony’s warehouse. Their bloated abdomen produces a liquid food that serve as food to other individuals living in a colony.
* The fire ant (shown in photo), who grows as big as a grain of rice has a sting that is worse than a hornet’s sting.
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Microwave popcorn popper
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Micro corn popper is a reusable alternative to popcorn bags. The removable lid/strainer melts butter into the 2.5-quart container while corn pops for all to see. In minutes, a perfect batch of everyone's favorite snack for movie time, or anytime, is ready. Cuts down on the uncooked kernels or burnt disasters of microwave bags.
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Eating 30 Chocolate Bars a Week
A Devon woman who eats 30 bars of chocolate a week has just celebrated her 100th birthday.Peggy Griffiths, of Abbotsham, has scoffed an estimated 70,000 Cadbury's Dairy Milk bars in her time.
Her lifetime chocolate consumption has been estimated at an incredible four tons.
Peggy said: "When I was young I could buy a bar of chocolate with my pocket money. It only cost tuppence and tasted exactly like it does now."
Her daughter Eileen Osborne, said she ran a sweet shop in the 1930s but it went bust because she ate all the profits.
Eileen said: "When mom was a little girl, her mother told her that sweets were bad for you but chocolate was good.
"She absolutely loves it. She's a chocoholic and her diet agrees with her."
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Recycling Labrador
Recycling more than 20,000 plastic bottles in six years is good going for even the greenest resident.But it's even more of an amazing feat for Tubby because he's a Labrador.
Twice daily he goes out for a walk and usually picks up at least six plastic bottles from wherever he can find them.
He then happily crushes them in his mouth and takes them back to his owner Sandra Gilmore, of Cadoc Road, West Pontnewydd, who recycles them in her black box.
She estimates that in Tubby's lifetime he could have collected up to 26,000 bottles.
"He has got a real nose for them and has done ever since he was a puppy," she said. "He'll dig them out from anywhere and go under bushes and even into water to fetch them.
"Tubby must be the keenest, greenest recycling canine around. I like to do by bit by recycling as much as I can - Tubby helps me to do an even better job."
Mrs Gilmore, 51, believes her family pet is attracted to bottles because of the noise they make when he crushes them in his mouth.
"He does a great job for the recycling crews as they come already crushed," she said. "However, it can be annoying sometimes as there is often something left in the bottle when he brings it over and it then goes everywhere."
To recognize Tubby's efforts, Torfaen Council's recycling mascot Dan Can the Super Recycler will present him with a bone.
Councillor John Cunningham, Executive Member for Operational Services, said: "It's no wonder we are the best performing recycling authority in South Wales with such enthusiastic pets as well as residents," he said.
"I'm glad he got a nose for bottles rather than bones and I hope he keeps up the good work."
Torfaen Council currently recycles 42 per cent of its waste.
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