Wiltshire insects (must be, its the BBC!)

Simon C · Post by **Simon C** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:23 pm

Came across this feature on Wiltshire insects - the last three are rather unexpected.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wiltshire/h ... 205441.stm

Simon

Piers · Post by **Piers** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:54 pm

Am I looking at what you're looking at Simon?

11 images, the final three being a slow worm, a common frog, and a cluster of snails...?

Felix.

Dave McCormick · Post by **Dave McCormick** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:57 pm

Felix wrote:Am I looking at what you're looking at Simon?

11 images, the final three being a slow worm, a common frog, and a cluster of snails...?

Felix.

Yeah I wondered that myself, I saw the same things...unless the slow worm, the hawk moth and something else are unexpected?

Rogerdodge · Post by **Rogerdodge** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 4:31 pm

Simon's point is, I believe, that snails, slow worms and frogs are not insects.

Piers · Post by **Piers** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 4:42 pm

Duh.

Suddenly it all falls into place. I'm such a freakin' dunce at times.

Pass me that spoon when you've finished with it Zonda.

Zonda · Post by **Zonda** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:51 pm

Is that the wooden one that i keep permanently?

Dave McCormick · Post by **Dave McCormick** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:03 am

Felix wrote:Duh.

Suddenly it all falls into place. I'm such a freakin' dunce at times.

Pass me that spoon when you've finished with it Zonda.

Pass it onto me afterward. And if snails are not insects, what are they? Crustatians?Anyway I should have realised that a slow worm or at least the frog was not an insect

Zonda · Post by **Zonda** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:06 am

Gastropods i think.

Wurzel · Post by **Wurzel** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:56 pm

Allo I'm new here!

Snails are indeed Gastropods, this is their class and along with Cephalopods, Bivalves and 4 other classes make the Phylum Mollusca.

Also the Spider is slightly unusal in that it too isn't an insect (a very common misconception) but is an Arachnid, belonging to the Phylum Chelicerata

Cheers ears

Simon C · Post by **Simon C** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:46 am

Welcome Wurzel,

Also the Spider is slightly unusal in that it too isn't an insect (a very common misconception) but is an Arachnid, belonging to the Phylum Chelicerata

Spot on - I overlooked that!

Simon

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