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 * Did you know that...


 * ... that bellflower resin bees (pictured) were among the first insects noted to use synthetic materials in manufacturing nests?
 * ... that certain crabs injected with calitoxin, found in the nematocysts of the sea anemone Calliactis parasitica, are paralysed within one minute?
 * ... that the cream-spotted cardinalfish is the sole member of the new genus Ozichthys?
 * ... that the bee Coelioxys sodalis (pictured) is a kleptoparasite?
 * ... that the 1801 edition of The Encyclopaedia Londinensis volume III makes note of certain "remarkable" features of plumeless silver thistle (pictured)?
 * ... that in the event of a severe flood, the gray-tailed vole will abandon its complex network of tunnels and head for high ground?
 * ... that the distress calls of long-tailed vole neonates are in the ultrasonic range?
 * ... that the Camas pocket gopher (pictured) has been described as "morose and savage", yet can be tamed in captivity?
 * ... that the marsh shrew can run along the surface of the water for up to five seconds?
 * ... that with a weight of 19g (0.67oz) and a length of 140mm (5.5in) the creeping vole (Microtus oregoni) is the smallest in Oregon?
 * ... that the fur colorings of Trowbridge's shrew change from brown to gray during certain times of the year?
 * ... that the pipe organ at the Old Salem Visitor Center (pictured) was constructed by David Tannenberg, who has been called "the most important eighteenth-century American organ-builder"?
 * ... that the tail of the ornate shrew is bicolored?