Comments on: Arthropod Quiz Answers http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2008/04/another-nature-quiz-answers/ The log of the good ship Mollymawk Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:32:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Sue http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2008/04/another-nature-quiz-answers/#comment-76 Sue Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:12:20 +0000 http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/?p=237#comment-76 Hi Mollymawkers, Great quiz, I just got around to a closer look at it today, in the post summit catch up. I didn’t get the Egyptian grasshopper leg at all! I started looking up a common name for the Acrida and found “Nosed Grasshopper”. Then I noticed that there is more than one species with (Acridae) Truxalis nassuta being associated with arid places… here are some links if you get chance where you may be able to compare images and text to confirm type. General category of the genus http://www.insectariumvirtual.com/galeria/Subfamilia-Acridinae-DLlP-cat1319.html within that page, but describes two separate types in the last comment… http://www.insectariumvirtual.com/galeria/Truxalis-nasuta-ninfa-NFA-DLlP-img7662.html I think that the orb web spider could be Lobed Argiope (Argiope lobata), all depending on the pattern on the other side, is it silver with a wavy margin?… Compare it with this link http://www.wildsideholidays.com/natural/insects-and-creepy-crawlies/91-spiders-etc/198-lobed-argiope-argiope-lobata Just love the cat's gaze! Regards, Sue Hi Mollymawkers,

Great quiz, I just got around to a closer look at it today, in the post summit catch up. I didn’t get the Egyptian grasshopper leg at all!

I started looking up a common name for the Acrida and found “Nosed Grasshopper”.

Then I noticed that there is more than one species with (Acridae) Truxalis nassuta being associated with arid places… here are some links if you get chance where you may be able to compare images and text to confirm type.

General category of the genus
http://www.insectariumvirtual.com/galeria/Subfamilia-Acridinae-DLlP-cat1319.html

within that page, but describes two separate types in the last comment…
http://www.insectariumvirtual.com/galeria/Truxalis-nasuta-ninfa-NFA-DLlP-img7662.html

I think that the orb web spider could be Lobed Argiope (Argiope lobata), all depending on the pattern on the other side, is it silver with a wavy margin?… Compare it with this link
http://www.wildsideholidays.com/natural/insects-and-creepy-crawlies/91-spiders-etc/198-lobed-argiope-argiope-lobata

Just love the cat’s gaze!
Regards,
Sue

]]> By: Patrick http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2008/04/another-nature-quiz-answers/#comment-74 Patrick Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:17:50 +0000 http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/?p=237#comment-74 Having seen Clive's ultimatum at the iberianature forum, I rushed over here eager to show off my knowledge of our six-and-eight-legged friends (even I knew that snails don't have legs!) and what do I find? Someone's gone and posted the answers. There's a moral, and even a lesson to be learnt, in there somewhere :) Great quiz anyway and looking forward to the fish 'n' chips. Regs., Patrick Having seen Clive’s ultimatum at the iberianature forum, I rushed over here eager to show off my knowledge of our six-and-eight-legged friends (even I knew that snails don’t have legs!) and what do I find? Someone’s gone and posted the answers.
There’s a moral, and even a lesson to be learnt, in there somewhere :)
Great quiz anyway and looking forward to the fish ‘n’ chips.
Regs.,
Patrick

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