Dragonflies are the fastest insects in the UK, travelling up to 30mph • A cockroach can live for up to nine days... without its head! • Romans used wood from hornbeam trees to make their chariots • Worms can have more than one heart – some have five or ten • Swifts keep flying for three years, they eat, mate and sleep in the air • An oak tree can be home to over 300 different species • Bees need to visit 2 million flowers to make a pound of honey • A green dye made from an alder tree was used to colour Robin Hoods clothes • The wood of a Holly tree is used to make chess pieces • A slug has four noses but only 1 foot • An adult hedgehog can have 5000-7000 spines • Bats are the only mammals that can fly • Butterflies smell through their feet • A wren weighs about the same as a £1 coin • Owls can hear their prey moving under snow