... they ... the ... Very nice! They don't even have to probe into the flowers - they can use their mouthparts to chew through the outside of the flower to get...
... Emile, a discussion with my museum-sculptor friend, Jo, has opened my eyes. Big bugs does not depend as highly on oxygen concentration or respiration, but...
Sauropod poem by me not for publication (?) the tune is based on something off TV: I'm just a sauropod. I'm not some witless clod! I'm a follower of Ozgod. ...
... my eyes. ... respiration, Respiration is not a "vital function" in insects (hooray for the tracheal system!) but it does get to be a bit of a problem for ...
... No. This should work (it doesn't if you have an incapable browser): http://spec.int.tc This works in any case: http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0000265/Spec/...
... Imagine the Ozgod. Now imagine the trailer of Eraser. This is all you need to know. Erm... in fact, this seems to be all anyone knows. The basic idea is...
... I did suggest a cryptic Spec great sea centipede a while back.Also, I had a concept for a 2-3 meter helminthine Great Sea Millipede in the phillipines.Not...
<Yeah, well, I didn't want to write anything new until I uploaded the raphidiopteran pics, but since I've got nothing better to do... Incidentally, which do...
<This is the next installation of me bugging you, if you please>. Coprorhynchidae - dung crawlers One trend among scorpionflies was to lose the wings entirely....
Emile, I'm enraptured again by your amazing insight. And you will surely be the vogue "critter" writer for the book and accompanying website (as Dan has always...
By the way, on our world, the beetles seem to owe their astonishing diversity to their wildly dimorphic life cycles. Their larva live in dung, bore in wood, ...
I still think spec's giant land centipedes and spiders should be vetoed. I believe there is more than one factor that limits their size, (rodents? oxygen? ...
... I don't remember, and I won't put a centipede into the sea. ... This fascinating picture is said to probably show a way, way, way overgrown nemertean....
David Marjanovic
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May 4, 2007 1:24 pm
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... Well said!!! ... Really? I've seen a movie of a nemertean killing and swallowing an annelid about its own size. -- "Feel free" - 10 GB Mailbox, 100...
David Marjanovic
david.marjanovic@...
May 4, 2007 1:39 pm
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... book, ... I'm flattered, but why not put everything in the book? ... Joy....
... astonishing diversity ... bore in wood, ... for food, ... larva/adult cycle? It's not just the beetles, it's pretty much all holometabolous insects (though...
... overgrown nemertean. These are fascinating animals, though they have nothing to do with arthropods. ... overgrown nemerteans are already known... ... Darn,...
... vetoed. I ... (rodents? oxygen? ... giant ... Ceratinly, I agree. Although there are bat-eating jungle centipedes, but these aren't nearly *that* big. ...
I WAS not asking for freaky uber-bugs, people. Just to TRY and validate what Emile had written about the Wyrms, that's all! And how the bloody hell is a giant...
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