Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for March 03, 2013

we are star dustwe are golden…

Verne, how did you get that honey jug off of your head ?

If the mites are females they are made of sugar and spices and all things nice. Just like a certain squirrel as well.

I am glad to see that Verne got the honey jar off his head in the usual way, like you do when that happens to you.

“The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make this station and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are star-stuff. We are the Universe, made manifest, trying to figure itself out.” – Delenn, Babylon 5 “A Distant Star”

Actually, most of the stuff that we are made from (carbon, oxygen, etc.) was created by nuclear reactions in the stars long after the Big Bang. When those early stars ended their life cycle and blew apart, the elements that they had synthesized were ejected into space where they came together for the next generation of stars, and out solar system was formed from that material.