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From: ed@hcx9.SSD.HARRIS.COM
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Big Bug Book?
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Date: 16 Nov 88 18:43:00 GMT
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/* Written  7:19 pm  Nov 14, 1988 by gnome@olivey.olivetti.com in hcx9:sci.bio */
From article <10990@reed.UUCP>, by todd@reed.UUCP (Todd Ellner):
> There are books on insects aplenty.  Go to your local university and ask the 
> nice entomologist for help, but _ALL KNOWN_ insects?!?  There are over a
> million cataloged species of insects, 250,000 of beetles alone.  In fact, they
> compromise 3/4 of all known animal species period.  Sorry I sound this way.
> There's an entomology mid-term coming up soon.
> -- 
> Todd Ellner ...tektronix!reed!todd    todd@reed.UUCP (or BITNET)

I have been trying to reach a local entomologist at a nearby
university, so far with no luck.

Anyway,  I brought the half-ant/half-worm thing into work
and got the following responses --
1) It's an Earwig.
   Nope, not even close (showed them a picture).
2) It's a queen ant.
   Not one that I've found in any book I've looked in.
   This bug uses it's abdomen as an inchworm would if it
   had to back-up in a hurry.
3) It's a, uh, hhhmmm...
4) It's ugly, GET IT OUT OF HERE!

Gary
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