mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 30/7/04 at 04:41 AM |
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Peteff
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| posted on 30/7/04 at 09:21 AM |
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They'll find a cure...
They seem to be immune to everything else man can throw at them, apart from size 9's.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Alez
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| posted on 30/7/04 at 09:29 AM |
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Apparently they're the only organic creature that is immune to RADIATION, or so I've heard (not joking).
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 30/7/04 at 09:40 AM |
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not immune - id read that they are 100 times less sensitive to it
atb
steve
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Cita
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| posted on 30/7/04 at 09:41 AM |
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Any idea how fast these creatures can run?
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 30/7/04 at 09:52 AM |
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the web can be a useful (and sad at times) thing, cos you can fin dinfo like this...
http://ufbir.ifas.ufl.edu/chap39.htm
extract.........
Results
I narrowed the field to three contenders for the fastest land insect: the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana, and two Australian tiger
beetles, Cicindela hudsoni and C. eburneola (subgenus Rivacindela). Young (1998) named P. americana the current record holder with a maximum speed
recorded at 1.5 m/s (3.4 mph). Full and Tu (1991) measured this speed using a specially designed pressure sensitive plate inserted into the
roach's raceway. A computer recorded the pressure and time of each footfall, from the first footfall to the last, as the roach crossed the 10.7
cm plate. They also used high-speed cameras to measure time and movement over the set distance. Kamoun and Hogenhout (1996) reported that both C.
hudsoni and C. eburneola were faster than P. americana, with maximum recorded speeds of 2.49 m/s (5.57 mph) and 1.86 m/s (4.16 mph).
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Peteff
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| posted on 30/7/04 at 09:55 AM |
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3mph according to this.
http://www.thaibugs.com/Articles/roach.html
Fourth section down. There's some really amazing info on these creatures on several sites. It's a good job they don't grow a lot
bigger or we'd be further down the food chain.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 30/7/04 at 10:12 AM |
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yep..... but I tried not to post more incase people thought I was getting too involved with the research - but what the heck!
The bit I liked - that gives hope to us all (if we were cockroaches anyway) is that the females prefer wimpier types rather than the strong types, as
a male partner. Something to do with not liking rough sex from a stronger partner
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steve
quote:
Originally posted by Peteff
http://www.thaibugs.com/Articles/roach.html
Fourth section down. There's some really amazing info on these creatures on several sites. It's a good job they don't grow a lot
bigger or we'd be further down the food chain.
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 30/7/04 at 11:30 AM |
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In Durban where I once lived the roaches were huge and they breed like wildfire. When they walked you could hear them some of the bugs got to two
inches or more . Durbs being sub tropical had some pretty big spiders that would push us down the food chain if they were bigger!
Not to forget the cane rat that was the size of a puppy. The `locals`sent their kids in to the cane fields to catch them and the barbequed the thing
skin an all. It was ready to eat when the skin was slightly charred.............inyama stank! They used to fight over who got the
eyeballs!!!!!
[Edited on 30-7-04 by mangogrooveworkshop]
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Peteff
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| posted on 30/7/04 at 12:41 PM |
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They used to fight over who got the eyeballs!!!!!
leave the eyes in, it should see us through the week .
The old ones are the best eh!!
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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