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Meat-Eating Caterpillar; It hunts snails and ties them down
ScienceNews ^
| 7/23/05
| S. Milius
Posted on 07/31/2005 5:51:47 PM PDT by furball4paws
A snail eating caterpillar is described. It hunts down snails, ties them down with silk and devours them.
"Such oddball lifestyles tend to develop in isolated ecosystems where there's a limited variety of creatures, as in Hawaii. "There's more room for evolutionary experimentation," says Gillespie. For example, Hawaiian insects evolved without ants as predators or competitors for food."
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...
TOPICS: US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: biology; caterpillars; crevo; evolution; hawaii; snails
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Once more evolution rears its ugly head in the form of oddball feeding habits.
To: furball4paws; Ichneumon
Pingy thingy. I think Ichy would especially like it.
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posted on
07/31/2005 5:52:32 PM PDT
by
furball4paws
(One of the last Evil Geniuses, or the first of their return.)
To: PatrickHenry
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posted on
07/31/2005 5:53:02 PM PDT
by
furball4paws
(One of the last Evil Geniuses, or the first of their return.)
To: furball4paws
That's how Hillary Mates.
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posted on
07/31/2005 5:53:38 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
( I DON'T C.A.I.R. !!!!!!!!!)
To: furball4paws
Escargot Wrap.
CW green garlic or green chill
To: furball4paws
Nice, but not very newsworthy. You think I should ping the whole list for this?
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:04:33 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
To: furball4paws
Reminds me of an old girlfriend of mine. Boy, do I miss her.
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:04:49 PM PDT
by
Buck W.
(Yesterday's Intelligentsia are today's Irrelevantsia.)
To: PatrickHenry
Sunday evening's usually slow. Certainly a selected ping is worth it, but I'll leave it up to you.
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:06:13 PM PDT
by
furball4paws
(One of the last Evil Geniuses, or the first of their return.)
To: Buck W.
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:08:08 PM PDT
by
WorkingClassFilth
(NEW and IMPROVED: Now with 100% more Tyrannical Tendencies and Dictator Envy!)
To: furball4paws; longshadow; VadeRetro; balrog666; general_re; RadioAstronomer; js1138; whattajoke; ...
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:11:29 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
To: furball4paws
Happy?
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:11:52 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
To: furball4paws
Now, if it were to be effective on garden slugs, which some here call 'snails,' I could be rich if I set up an import business!
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:12:17 PM PDT
by
ZOTnot
('We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good'--Hillary, 6/28/2004.)
To: PatrickHenry
I'm almost always happy :)
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:13:18 PM PDT
by
furball4paws
(One of the last Evil Geniuses, or the first of their return.)
To: ZOTnot
Unfortunately it would be hard to tie down a slug. This time of year they are particularly destructive around here.
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:14:39 PM PDT
by
furball4paws
(One of the last Evil Geniuses, or the first of their return.)
To: PatrickHenry
Please add me to the Meat Eating Caterpillar" ping list. I understand this is a high volume ping list, but I must be kept current.
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:16:02 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
To: gitmo; PatrickHenry
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:16:53 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
To: furball4paws
Yeah, but really, how hard can it be to chase a snail?
Can we send a few of 'em to France? We could put a huge dent in their diet...
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:17:56 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Carnac: A siren, a baby and a liberal. Answer: Name three things that whine.)
To: furball4paws
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:19:12 PM PDT
by
brbethke
To: WestVirginiaRebel
When you are a caterpillar carrying around a protective "tube" what else could you expect to successfully chase?
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:19:47 PM PDT
by
furball4paws
(One of the last Evil Geniuses, or the first of their return.)
To: furball4paws
Unfortunately it would be hard to tie down a slug. This time of year they are particularly destructive around here.
Got lots of slugs here too but with butter and garlic they are just as good as escargots and one heck of a lot cheaper...........
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posted on
07/31/2005 6:20:22 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Too many idiots, too little time to deal with them all......I'll just shoot what I can.)
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