Vermont Wildlife
Vermont is home to this many species of bees.
A. 75
B. 188
C. 352
What is 352?
55 bee species are on the conservation list
The spring equinox signifies how many hours of daylight?
What is 12?
In 2024, Vermont produced 939,000 tons of this non-human food.
What is Hay, including 157,000 tons of alfalfa hay.
Maple syrup is mostly water, but contains this % of sugar.
A. 3%
B. 5%
C. 7%
What is 3%?
This is the state fruit of Vermont.
What is the apple?
The is the estimated population of this large animal in Vermont is about 2100.
What are moose?
This is the coldest temperature record for the first day of spring, March 21st.
A. -5*F
B. -3*F
C. 0*F
What is -3*F, set in 1988. The coldest spring temp on record is -12, set on March 26, 1966
In 2024, maple syrup production yielded this many record breaking gallons?
A. 2.4 million
B. 2.7 million
C. 3.1 million
What is 3,108,000 gallons?
It takes this many gallons of sap to produce 1 gallon of syrup.
A. 40
B. 55
C. 70
What is 40 gallons?
What percent of Vermont is covered in trees/forests?
A. 74%
B. 78%
C. 81%
What is 78% in 2024 - or 4.591 million acres?
The Vermont Bird Records Committee has documented this many species of birds as of March 2024.
A. 396
B. 274
C. 221
What is 396, representing 22 orders and 63 families of bird?
This is the warmest temp ever recorded in Vermont on the first day of spring, March 21st, in 1976.
A. 88*F
B. 90*F
C. 92*F
What is 90*F?
The current Spring record is 95*, set on June 19, 1995
Vermont plants this many acres of corn yearly.
A. 95,000
B. 125,000
C. 155,000
What is 95,000 acres, yielding about 1.6 million tons of corn.
Maple syrup has an ORAC (oxygen radical absorbent capacity) = antioxidant strength of 600, similar to this orange vegetable.
What is raw carrot?
The northern hardwood mix of beech, birch, and maple dominates Vermont’s forests, accounting for this % of the forest cover.
A. 55%
B. 71%
C. 82%
What is 71%? Sugar maples make up close to 20% of all trees in Vermont.
Male peeper frogs can generate how many peeps per hour?
A. 5-600
B. 12-1500
C. 3-4000
What is 3-4000?
Male peeper frogs trunk muscles, which help propel air from the lungs, average 15 percent of their body mass compared to only 3 percent for the quiet females.
One of the biggest one-day snow totals in Vermont include this many inches, set in Orleans County on February 5, 1995.
A. 37"
B. 42"
C. 44"
What is 42".
Second record goes to 37 inches in Bennington County on March 14, 1984.
More people than cows? Vermont is home to this many cows?
A. 816,000
B. 124,000
C. 237,000
What is 124,000 on over 500 farms (vs 643,000 people)
Maple syrup is classified into four distinct color classes: Golden, Amber, Dark, and Very Dark. This plays the largest role in color.
What is earliness or lateness in the season - the lighter, the earlier.
This plant can bloom in freezing temps and is able to generate its own heat for 12-16 days.
A. Skunk cabbage
B. Dandelions
C. Crocus
What are skunk cabbage?
This species experiences delayed pregnancy, where an egg is fertilized in the spring but does not implant until the fall, and only after getting enough nourishment.
A. Bears
B. Elk
C. Possums
What are bears?
April and May of 2011 saw a record breaking rain fall of this many inches in Burlington.
A. 12.06"
B. 14.47"
C. 15.62"
What is 15.62"
Vermont has this many organic farms, about 13% of total farmland.
A. 500
B. 700
C. 1000
What is 690 certified organic farms, including 188 organic dairy farms (in 2022). NOFA has 800 members and 771 farms with organic practices, including uncertified farms.
Just 4 tbsp of maple syrup provides 95% DV of this nutrient?
A. Manganese
B. Zinc
C. Chromium
What is manganese?
Pure maple syrup contains essential minerals such as calcium, potassium, manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, and iron. It also provides vitamins B2, B5, B6, niacin, biotin, and folic acid.
These flowers are among the first to bloom, some at just 36-38*F.
What are daffodils, snowcaps, trillium, scilla, columbine, glory of snow, galanthus/snow drops.