Comments on: Not A Trilobite http://rynosseros.com/2008/06/23/not-a-trilobite/ A small house at the corner of Penury and Dotage. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:16:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Caitlin O'Connor http://rynosseros.com/2008/06/23/not-a-trilobite/#comment-4110 Caitlin O'Connor Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:03:01 +0000 http://rynosseros.com/?p=1137#comment-4110 Herself INDEED says no. But the one photographed here is very sweet. Herself INDEED says no. But the one photographed here is very sweet.

]]> By: ryno http://rynosseros.com/2008/06/23/not-a-trilobite/#comment-4068 ryno Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:48:34 +0000 http://rynosseros.com/?p=1137#comment-4068 Yeah, you can never tell just what is in the forest floor. A few hours south-east of here, you'd run the risk of being stopped in your path by fierce, hissing, crayfish! http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showimage/5427/ Some fine text and pics of other Queensland forest critters in the following links, too: http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/index.php/2005/12/crayfish-tracking/ http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/index.php/2006/02/craying-and-frogging/ Yeah, you can never tell just what is in the forest floor. A few hours south-east of here, you’d run the risk of being stopped in your path by fierce, hissing, crayfish!

http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showimage/5427/

Some fine text and pics of other Queensland forest critters in the following links, too:
http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/index.php/2005/12/crayfish-tracking/

http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/index.php/2006/02/craying-and-frogging/

]]> By: Chris http://rynosseros.com/2008/06/23/not-a-trilobite/#comment-4067 Chris Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:29:17 +0000 http://rynosseros.com/?p=1137#comment-4067 way cool I held one of those once. way cool

I held one of those once.

]]> By: ryno http://rynosseros.com/2008/06/23/not-a-trilobite/#comment-4065 ryno Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:21:47 +0000 http://rynosseros.com/?p=1137#comment-4065 Yes, I'm fond of isopods too, especially the BIG marine ones! The wood cocky is a small cousin of these fellows http://www.bugsed.com/fact_sheets/giant_burrowing_cockroach.html - who DO live in my state. No, Herself will not let me have one. Yes, I’m fond of isopods too, especially the BIG marine ones!

The wood cocky is a small cousin of these fellows http://www.bugsed.com/fact_sheets/giant_burrowing_cockroach.html - who DO live in my state.

No, Herself will not let me have one.

]]> By: Chris http://rynosseros.com/2008/06/23/not-a-trilobite/#comment-4064 Chris Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:10:57 +0000 http://rynosseros.com/?p=1137#comment-4064 well, that's the problem with replying when I'm largely shutdown. wasn't really calling it a rolly polly. it has always amused me that so many names can be applied indiscriminately to one critter: rolly polly, isopod, wood louse, pill bug, sow bug... suspect I'm forgetting a few the ones I scrounged up as kids didn't roll up either I like all isopods. this is my favorite: http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/eco/taxalab/2005/idoteaw/idoteaw.htm well, that’s the problem with replying when I’m largely shutdown. wasn’t really calling it a rolly polly. it has always amused me that so many names can be applied indiscriminately to one critter: rolly polly, isopod, wood louse, pill bug, sow bug… suspect I’m forgetting a few

the ones I scrounged up as kids didn’t roll up either

I like all isopods. this is my favorite: http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/eco/taxalab/2005/idoteaw/idoteaw.htm

]]> By: ryno http://rynosseros.com/2008/06/23/not-a-trilobite/#comment-4063 ryno Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:46:10 +0000 http://rynosseros.com/?p=1137#comment-4063 These little chaps are not roly-poly pillbugs, and have no mechanism for defence like that. Indeed, the little flat wood-cockroaches don't even seen to have the foul-smelling chemical defence of their cousins. It appears that staying out of sight ,and being able to scurry into places nothing else will fit, are their defensive measures. These little chaps are not roly-poly pillbugs, and have no mechanism for defence like that.

Indeed, the little flat wood-cockroaches don’t even seen to have the foul-smelling chemical defence of their cousins. It appears that staying out of sight ,and being able to scurry into places nothing else will fit, are their defensive measures.

]]> By: Chris http://rynosseros.com/2008/06/23/not-a-trilobite/#comment-4062 Chris Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:38:31 +0000 http://rynosseros.com/?p=1137#comment-4062 Ooooo, that was fun. I used to spend hours searching for similar types in my yard roly poly! Ooooo, that was fun. I used to spend hours searching for similar types in my yard

roly poly!

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