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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 19 g (0.67 oz) and a length of 140 mm (5.5 in) 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?