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Posted: 7/9/2009 6:09:57 PM | Daddy long legs: These unfortunate creatures posses the aviation skills of an elephant falling off a cliff whilst drunk. Surely evolution was having a laugh when it gave these unfortunates wings.
Lesser house flies: I found one of these in my house the other day. It just flew around the room in circles, I opened the window and came back 8 hours later and it was still there flying round in circles. What is the point? I'm guessing that the fly doesn't even know it's circling endlessly and that it's an in built brain funtion designed to keep this rather pointless drone species alive. Those spiders must get dizzy watching them!
Traffic wardens: They say there is a traffic warden within 10 foot of every rat. If you can't see him it's because he's hiding round the corner waiting for you to leave your vehicle. This cunning pest presents a huge problem to the human species, a large net coupled with a cattle prod is the best way to fend of traffic wardens, failing that a cup full of rats p.iss thrown in the face usually works for a while. | |
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Posted: 7/10/2009 12:52:56 PM | I've only ever seen wasps chewing on my fence or heard about them stinging people 
Cockroaches are also high on my yuk list, I remember one night in India beating one to death with a shoe , but unable to deal with the body I left it in the corner of the room, only to hear a crunching sound later ............... I chose not to put the light on to investigate. No signs of anything in the morning  I guess the****oach was useful to something. | |
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Posted: 7/11/2009 3:59:21 AM |
What are slugs for ?
Haven't worked that one out, yet.
All that slime! I don't think that's what puts me off them, though, because I don't have a problem with snails (apart from the fact that I accidentally crush hundreds of them in my 'garden').
Perhaps it's that body which slugs have?
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| Gnats, Wasps and other useless creatures!
Posted: 7/11/2009 4:57:56 AM | I do not kill anything not even the slugs or snails who are absolutely aniallating my garden. Spiders eeeeeeeugh you will find me doing the irish jig until i can find something to trap it under and either threaten it with the cat or dog or dispose of it out of the window. Those flying things yuck that eeeeeeeeeeeeeew just eugh!
Need i say more, i do not like bugs, goggas oh anything with more than 4 legs. | |
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Posted: 7/11/2009 10:24:08 AM |
Daddy long legs: These unfortunate creatures posses the aviation skills of an elephant falling off a cliff whilst drunk. Surely evolution was having a laugh when it gave these unfortunates wings.
knob head, is a "daddy long legs" over in the UK a spider or a flying insect. Over here in the states, a daddy long legs is a spider: small body and very long legs. Wheat you're describing sounds like what we call a crane fly: relatively small elongated body and a pair of very long wings.
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How 'bout we go smaller: I'm suffering from the ailments of a summer virus. Rhinovirus, probably, maybe sommer influenza (one person told to go get checked for swine flu  ) . Muscle aches, head cold, small fever, classic symptoms of the flu. So, tell me, what's the purpose of those pesky bugggers: viruses -- other than to torment us.
TK
{well, there is that one virus that gives tulips their variegated coloring, but other than that one} | |
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Posted: 7/11/2009 1:13:01 PM | Everything has its purpose
Everything is there for a reason
Just because you don't have justification for its existance doesnt mean it doesnt have any worth. | |
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Posted: 7/11/2009 2:06:49 PM |
well, there is that one virus that gives tulips their variegated coloring, but other than that one}
Ok I have one, viruses, in particular phage viruses have been/are used in combinated with bacteria to create medicines/drugs and are also used in genetically modifying bacteria to encourage them to express a particualr protein that needs to be studied in medical research.
Apart from that, there is one school of thought that viruses have evolved as 'stripped down'bacteria,they have lost all the incumbent needed for cellular respiration and exist as a streamlined efficient pathogen.
(spot the geek!!)
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Posted: 7/11/2009 2:51:34 PM | yankee doubt wrote:
Everything has its purpose
Everything is there for a reason
Just because you don't have justification for its existance doesnt mean it doesnt have any worth.
While I agree with this 100% doesn't mean I can't wait for it to be extinct!
Variola: and yes, we are also attempting to use viruses to genetically modify animals (humans included) in the same way. Has been some limited success. If they were successful with that bit of research for diabetics it was make all my work on an implantable insulin delivery device / artificial pancreas all for naught. I look forward to that day. From one geek to another!
Although I do prefer technophile; geek has connotations of biting off chicken heads. Ick!
TK
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Posted: 7/22/2009 6:19:56 AM |
Earwigs dont really seem to have a purpose except to scare little kids, when you tell them they go in their ears.
You mean they don't actually do that ?!? Phew ! | |
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Posted: 7/25/2009 2:00:03 AM |
My theory is that Wasps are jealous of Bees because they have far better coats and therefore take this out on the rest of the world. Is there a reason for these nasty beasties?
I cannot think of one, but it's worth considering that perhaps mankind was placed in this rock to annoy insects? After all, insects have been around for ever, and will probably outlast the human race (they certainly saw the last of the dinosaurs), yet every so often, God sends round another type of creature to upset in
Wasp are just as usefull at polentaion as bees. Woodlice break down wood quicker and so on, everything exist to fill an nitch in nature, there are no free lunches in nature!. | |
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Posted: 7/25/2009 2:53:14 AM | Snails.................just where are they going in life...............and how long will it take them to fooking get there??
 not a snails pace.................ever!! | |
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Posted: 7/26/2009 8:29:25 AM | Just be glad that the asian hornet is is in asia, its as big as your thumb!.
Don't mean to frighten you but the Giant Asian hornet was introduced into France in 2004. They reckon it's only a matter of time before it appears in England!!! | |
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Posted: 7/26/2009 9:59:44 AM | I've got a new one to add............... bloody flying ants 
I know they are off to perpetuate new colonies that we can attack with bleach and boiling water, but do they have to be so in your face (in your hair, in your clothes, in your everything) when they go about it? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!
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Posted: 7/26/2009 12:26:25 PM | | I don't mind sharing my flat with lots of eight legged friends but every now and again I started to feel invaded and like I need to have some privacy. So, i recently acquired a battery operated spider catcher which I highly recommend. There is a long handle with a plastic clear tube which when you switch it on gently vacuums the spider into the tube so you can gently let it out the window without damaging it. Perhaps they might invent a larger one for bigger pests! | |
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Posted: 7/26/2009 12:47:52 PM | I always give spiders the benefit of the doubt - if they are passing through then thats fine, if they are still around two or three days later - then they are gone. Never ever killed a spider in the horses stable though cos it's meant to bring bad luck
As for flies - it's one buzz and the spray comes out. | |
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