X-ray shows how bugs really breathe

CNN.com / Science & Space ^ | January 24, 2003 | CNN

[MeekOneGOP]

Beetles and other insects have tiny air sacs around their wings, legs and abdomens that help pump air inside their bodies.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bugs don't have lungs, so how do they breathe? Maybe more efficiently than people, according to the first close-up view of insects forcing air in and out of tiny oxygen pipes.

[MeekOneGOP]

A friend of mine showed me this article. I thought I'd post it for all you science and tech folks...

[MeekOneGOP]

Just a general interest type article, fyi...

[isthisnickcool]

Interesting. But for some reason reminds me of my first wife....

[Nick Danger]

He teamed with Westneat to put living insects in the machine. They were bombarded with mega doses of radiation, so experiments with more advanced animals aren't likely.

It kills bugs and it advances science! Truly a miraculous device.

[techcor]

Ok. So how large can a bug get? I think there were some fossils from hundreds of millions of years ago that seem to indicate a spider with a span of 7 feet between the tips of the front and back legs. I think it was an undersea spider (crab-like).

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[stanz]

Isn't it true that when you spray bug repellant on an insect, it's oily nature suffocates them?

[SoDak]

I know diesel fuel does the trick.

[templar]

"It's an important discovery,..."

Why?

[rs79bm]

Instead of developing cures for cancer, we're spending countless hours of laboreous research on how bugs breathe. Nonetheless, an interesting read.

[Redcloak]

Please tell me that my tax dollars weren't used for this study.

[Dan(9698)]

The best spray for spiders is hair sprey.

It locks up their joints.

[Khurkris]

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[John H K]

Please tell me that my tax dollars weren't used for this study.

I've always wondered at people so narrow-minded they think anything in science that doesn't have an IMMEDIATE practical application is a waste of time and money.

It could actually eventually have implications for pesticides, regardless.

The main expense is building the synchrotron and that was built for other purposes, anyway. It's a sunk cost so the study really doesn't cost much at all.

[unspun]

It locks up their joints.

Shshshsh. Don't let the Libertarians on the site know.

[stanz]

Have to remember that.

[Redcloak]

OK... Let's assume that there's a practical application; like better pesticides. I STILL don't want my tax dollars used! Let Ortho and S.E. Johnson pay for their own research.

[gubamyster]

OK... Let's assume that there's a practical application; like better pesticides. I STILL don't want my tax dollars used! Let Ortho and S.E. Johnson pay for their own research.

Exactly! Now let's hope they don't spend any tax money on sending the bugs up in the Space Shuttle to see how they breath in space.

[Redcloak]

I think that they already did that experiment!

[MeekOneGOP]

Interesting. But for some reason reminds me of my first wife....

LOL !