Once more evolution rears its ugly head in the form of oddball feeding habits.
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To: furball4paws; Ichneumon
Pingy thingy. I think Ichy would especially like it.
2 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
3 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.
4 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
Reminds me of an old girlfriend of mine. Boy, do I miss her.
7 posted on
07/31/2005 6:04:49 PM PDT by
Buck W.
(Yesterday's Intelligentsia are today's Irrelevantsia.)
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!
12 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: 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...
17 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
18 posted on
07/31/2005 6:19:12 PM PDT by
brbethke
To: furball4paws
Once more evolution rears its ugly head in the form of oddball feeding habits.Why does your comment seem to scream for an image of Michael Moore? (Please don't post one!)
28 posted on
07/31/2005 6:30:58 PM PDT by
NonValueAdded
("Freedom of speech makes it much easier to spot the idiots." [Jay Lessig, 2/7/2005])
To: furball4paws
Oh....bugs. I thought it was another Rachel Corrie post.
31 posted on
07/31/2005 6:33:06 PM PDT by
Dallas59
(" I have a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush" John Kerry -2004)
To: furball4paws; dighton; aculeus
Rubinoff says that he's never seen attacks on a moving snail. Instead, a caterpillar sidles up to a sitting snail, pokes around gently as if confirming its target, and then starts an elaborate tie-down that takes about an hour. 
34 posted on
07/31/2005 6:37:07 PM PDT by
Thinkin' Gal
(Please keep BlueLancer in your prayers. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1453026/posts)
To: furball4paws
I shot this pic in Honduras a couple years ago. The moth was at least 6 inches across......
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36 posted on
07/31/2005 6:39:18 PM PDT by
Hot Tabasco
(Too many idiots, too little time to deal with them all......I'll just shoot what I can.)
To: furball4paws
For what it's worth, quite a few caterpillars of common species are cannibalistic. But it remains to be determined whether they do so in order to get some "meat" in their diet, or because it eliminates the competition -- too many caterpillars on the same hostplant at the same time can strip it entirely, causing all to starve. Eating others of your species whenever you run across them is a workable way to thin out the "herd" so that there's enough hostplant left to go around.
Our back yard is a certified National Wildlife Foundation habitat for butterflies/moths (not as hard to get as it might sound), and we raise caterpillars to help boost local populations (most species are on the decline because of habitat destruction). We've released over a hundred adult butterflies so far this year, and have about another hundred currently in the "pipeline". Keeping some of them from eating each other is part of the process. The Polydamas Swallowtails are especially bad in that regard -- we've lost over a dozen that way so far.
To: furball4paws
How long would it take this snail to eat a whacky lib? Can we test it and find out, LMAO!
45 posted on
07/31/2005 6:52:20 PM PDT by
rockabyebaby
(What do you like best about your life?)
To: furball4paws; Baynative
But does it eat slugs? If so I want to start a small farm and raise these. They will sell GREAT here in the PNW.
50 posted on
07/31/2005 6:56:04 PM PDT by
MarMema
To: furball4paws
Can we breed those caterpillars to devour lower life forms...like Democrats?
52 posted on
07/31/2005 6:58:40 PM PDT by
Prime Choice
(Thanks to the Leftists, yesterday's deviants are today's "alternate lifestyles.")
To: furball4paws
64 posted on
07/31/2005 7:37:15 PM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: furball4paws
Ain't no ants in Hawaii?
Wow, learn sumthin new every day.
That's an absolutely extraordinary thing, if true.
If there are two type of species that IMHO rule the planet, it's ants and birds.
72 posted on
07/31/2005 9:13:57 PM PDT by
djf
(Government wants the same things I do - MY guns, MY property, MY freedoms!)
To: furball4paws
"A snail eating caterpillar"
Where can I get some of these? The damn snails are eating my tomato plants.
76 posted on
07/31/2005 10:24:50 PM PDT by
Anti-Christ is Hillary
(If Moreen Dowd can call herself a journalist than so can I.)
To: furball4paws
Caternator??? Termipillar????
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