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Posted: February 22 2011 at 11:19
While Termites are a pest, they also amaze me with those massive mounds they create. They can reach as high as 30 feet, imagine how high that is from a termite's perspective. When you compare the size of it in preportion to the insects, it's far taller than our structures are in preportion to us.
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Posted: February 22 2011 at 13:44
Roaches. I haven't had any problems opening up other animals, but I didn't even want to touch the goddamn roach we had to dissect on one course. The b*****ds are full of fat, which makes it even more fun. They also smell horrible. Mosquitos are a close second
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Posted: February 22 2011 at 14:04
boo boo wrote:
While Termites are a pest, they also amaze me with those massive mounds they create. They can reach as high as 30 feet, imagine how high that is from a termite's perspective. When you compare the size of it in preportion to the insects, it's far taller than our structures are in preportion to us.
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Posted: February 22 2011 at 16:56
All of them deserve to live.
They are the primary source of food of birds and bats and we all love birds and many love bats. Many small primates also live basically on arthropods (insects included) and probably the primates (we included) evolved from insectivorae mammals.
Insects provide a high pollination percentage of those beautiful trees and plants and flowers and without them the planet would be worse than it is with rotten woods, animal carcasses and excrements everywhere.
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Posted: February 22 2011 at 17:51
Woah... anyone seen the film Phase IV? The only film so far, from which I got nightmares. (Apart from that, I think ants are useful animals, the cleansing service of nature.)
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Posted: February 22 2011 at 21:12
Yeah, all creatures serve their purpose. Even the ones I don't want to be around.
I watched that wild life documentary narrated by Oprah called Life (which was very good actually) and there was a thing about this parasitic fungus that infects insects and sprouts through their brains. It was some serious David Cronenberg sh*t. But it serves it's purpose in keeping certain species from overpopulating.
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Posted: February 28 2011 at 20:55
File under fun with ants: if you run across a trail of those little bugger species and drag your finger perpendicular across the trail they lose their scent of the trail and go "aaaaaggghhh!!!! where the hell am I going???" and will run about all confused. Not too mean, I think they eventually work it out.
So anyone want to confess to using a magnifying glass to sunburn one? I take the fifth. I actually had more fun using it to focus the sun to burn interesting patterns in dried leaves.
Edited by Slartibartfast - February 28 2011 at 20:55
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted: May 15 2011 at 14:46
Well, speaking of termites, I got a couple of boxes of metal shelving units and when I got back home, one of the box ends was infested with termites.
Anyway I sprayed them all to hell with bug spray and fortunately it was discovered before the box was moved into the house. The box is going straight to the curb. Damn good thing they can't eat metal.
The only thing I'm still pondering was did they make a journey over on a container ship or were the shelves returned by a customer and that's where they came from?
Edited by Slartibartfast - May 15 2011 at 14:47
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted: May 15 2011 at 15:39
Proletariat wrote:
Mosquitos just above Asian Beatles (look like lady bugs but bite and also ruined the natural ecosystem when imported into my area!
It's almost funny how people have managed to import creatures out of their natural habitats and they become pests without their natural predators. Cane toads any of you Aussies?
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted: May 15 2011 at 19:06
Cockroaches, definitely. Nasty, filthy, uneradicable things. I don't mind spiders because they eat flies and mosquitos. But I haven't had a single insect in my house for the past three years because my cat mercilessly hunts them all down.
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and will run about all confused. Not too mean, I think they eventually work it out.
