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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:46 pm
by 55bloke
padfield wrote:The mantis holding the Berger's clouded yellow is a nymph of Empusa pennata - identified as nymph or adult by the projection ('crest') on the head, recalling something one might see on a dinosaur!!
There is, of course, a human-sized praying mantis in episode 4 of Season 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, if anyone wants to know what one looks like.
Guy
A fellow Buffy fan?!!
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:16 pm
by Padfield
55bloke wrote: A fellow Buffy fan?!!
Does this answer your question?
Buffy, my dog and my cat, chilling out a couple of summers (gedditt?) ago...
Guy
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:14 am
by 55bloke
You're clearly a man of taste!!
What's the story with the pic?
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:21 am
by Padfield
Oh, no story really. B just popped in for a cup of tea on her way to the cemetery.
Guy
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:56 am
by Chris
made me look twice! Nice photoshopping... especially the light!
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:55 am
by Trev Sawyer
There are indeed quite a few black squirrels near Cambridge - they are actually still "grey" squirrels, but interbreeding has led to this melanistic form of the same species. Very photogenic. Saying that, (as with my wine) I much prefer reds
Greys have obviously taken over and, like them or loathe them, are essentially now part of our native wildlife. Very sad for our native reds, but we only have ourselves to blame.
Much the same is rapidly happening to the (now extremely rare)native "white-clawed" crayfish in our rivers... American Signal Crayfish literally pave the bottoms of many rivers now and are spreading at an alarming rate (wiping out our "natives" with a disease to which they themselves are immune). As a keen angler, I have witnessed their insidious march through our waterways first hand (although few non river users seem to appreciate just how serious the situation is getting). If you haven't got any in your area yet, BEWARE... they WILL reach you very soon and there is little anyone is able to do about it.
Trev
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:55 pm
by Charles Nicol
there is a silver lining to the crayfish invasion... the perch are getting enormous on this vast supply of protein snacks. no doubt the perch record will soon be broken.
charles
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:25 pm
by 55bloke
55bloke wrote:You're clearly a man of taste!!
What's the story with the pic?
Well, my 1st thought was that it must be photoshopped, but just thought I'd ask!!
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:22 pm
by Trev Sawyer
Charles... you have PM.
Trev
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:12 pm
by 55bloke
Mantis' must surely be THE ultimate insect predator!! Thank God they don't get any bigger- if you put PREYING MANTIS into the search box of Youtube, there's some truly jaw-dropping clips on there! A little gruesome perhaps, but there's footage of Mantis' eating things you'd neverbelieve possible! Including a humming bird, a snake, a lizzard, a fish (!) and even a mouse!!!!
ther squirrel
Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:02 pm
by Charles Nicol
here is that squirrel again !!
charles