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11-20-2011, 10:47 PM
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That is SOOO GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!
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That's odd. I think they are beautiful!
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11-21-2011, 10:56 AM
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Oh, how rude of me
... I forgot to include this ol' gal.
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11-21-2011, 11:29 AM
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She's cute!
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11-21-2011, 02:58 PM
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Beautiful spiders! Love the 2 tarantulas. How long do they live on average? I really really don't understand the revulsion people have towards them, but maybe that's because I work with bugs for a living....
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11-21-2011, 03:47 PM
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I'm with you, Camille! Every creature is beautiful in its own way.
You work with bugs?
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11-21-2011, 03:53 PM
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Yup, I'm a PhD student in Entomology, studying plant-insect-pathogen interactions. I play around with aphids and caterpillars and butterflies, and also the beneficial insects that go with them (little wasps that lay eggs inside the caterpillars for instance). Last year, before starting my PhD, I was working with african mosquitoes for 6 months, and among other things it involved having to feed them (ie, stick my arm in a cage of 500 mozzies...)
It's funny, because as an orchid grower I do whatever I can to keep pests off my orchids, but at work it's the end of the world if one of the insect colonies is doing badly.
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11-21-2011, 06:04 PM
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Very nice pictures. I'm not sure I'd like spiders as pets, but I love to see them around. They, and lady bugs are so useful when it comes to pests. Too bad for me that I'm surrounded by arachnophobics.
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11-21-2011, 07:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Vanda lover
That's odd. I think they are beautiful!
Nancy
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Lol! I guess I should clarify a tad, as I sure didn't mean to offend anyone! The tarantulas are sorta cool, but the others give me the heebie-jeebies! It's totally cool that you 'grow' spiders,  , but I'm fine with looking at them on a screen. If one if those came crawling up to me, I would scream and then probably cry! |
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