Do insects also get cold?

[Prime]

Try a Mouse in your shoe?

[Tribble]

Ah but I would squash him if I put him in there

[bosaap]

Speaking about cold blooded and warm blooded. Why don't you see blooded when killing an ant?
Is it that fine?

[Monty]

Speaking about cold blooded and warm blooded. Why don't you see blooded when killing an ant?
Is it that fine?

Not all blood is red. Insects generally have green or blue blood iirc. Also the amount of blod present in one and is minute!

[mina.magpie]

Speaking about cold blooded and warm blooded. Why don't you see blooded when killing an ant? Is it that fine?

Goggo-blood doesn't carry oxygen, only nutrients, so it's green instead of red. Basically our blood is red because it's rusty - haemoglobin is iron-based, combined with oxygen ... rust. Not sure what metal, if any, insect blood is based on. (I slept through class that day)

Mina.

[jee]

I don't mind parktown prawns... or most goggos... its the ones that bites you when you accidentally disturb their snooozy sleep in a warm slipper... Where i live there are all sorts... you should see my spiders (ask hamin huns... ) i'm terrified of them, but believe that in order to overcome the fear, i need to face it... so i will lie in bed with my duvet up my nose and watch it move across the roof....

i don't believe in killing anything, so i have never seen goggo blood... mind i lie.... i do kill the ticks on my cats.... and their blood are red....

[Monty]

i don't believe in killing anything, so i have never seen goggo blood... mind i lie.... i do kill the ticks on my cats.... and their blood are red....

It's not actually the ticks blood, but your cat's blood. The ticks suck it up into their 'stomach' and that stomach gets popped when you squash the ticks

[jee]

i don't believe in killing anything, so i have never seen goggo blood... mind i lie.... i do kill the ticks on my cats.... and their blood are red....

It's not actually the ticks blood, but your cat's blood. The ticks suck it up into their 'stomach' and that stomach gets popped when you squash the ticks

aargghh you mean i'm spilling my cat's blood

[Tribble]

Yes - that is feline juice.

[Stuart]

Yes - that is feline juice.

Bottled and sold as tomato juice.

[Tribble]

Stuart, gross

[bosaap]

Yes - that is feline juice.

Bottled and sold as tomato juice.

SPiders there is a dif story. As soon as I see one I run for the hills

[Tribble]

But spiders live in the hills too They are everywhere

[Stuart]

But spiders live in the hills too They are everywhere

There are spiders in my ear?

C'mon people, this is an INSECTS thread ... stop talking about spiders ... get back on topic!

[Tribble]

The moth I saw this morning did not look cold at all - he/she was very active.

*Better mousey?*

[Stuart]

The moth I saw this morning did not look cold at all - he/she was very active.

*Better mousey?*

Thank you, yes. Spiders are not insects unless you delicately amputate a couple of legs.

[Tribble]

The moth I saw this morning did not look cold at all - he/she was very active.

*Better mousey?*

Thank you, yes. Spiders are not insects unless you delicately amputate a couple of legs.

So ... if I pull off two of their legs - I can talk about them here?

[Stuart]

The moth I saw this morning did not look cold at all - he/she was very active.

*Better mousey?*

Thank you, yes. Spiders are not insects unless you delicately amputate a couple of legs.

So ... if I pull off two of their legs - I can talk about them here?

Yes, and in the Picture of the Day thread.

[Tribble]

Now I just need the guts to get close enough to mutilate one of the beasties so that I can take a picture and chat about it.

You know mousey - I never knew you were this sadistic. Perhaps we have more in common than I originally thought

[mina.magpie]

@ Tribble & Stuart: Remind me to stay on you guys' good sides.

Mina.

[Tribble]

mina.magpie, lol you do know we are just joking. I would never hurt something - I would kill it as humanely as possible. I believe in karma and don't want mutilated arachnids on my conscience Besides - I am sure that they communicate telepathically and its buddies would hunt me down and scare me to death

[mina.magpie]

mina.magpie, lol you do know we are just joking. I would never hurt something - I would kill it as humanely as possible. I believe in karma and don't want mutilated arachnids on my conscience Besides - I am sure that they communicate telepathically and its buddies would hunt me down and scare me to death

LOL. Of course I do hon ... about you anyway. Not so sure about the "Grim Squeaker" over there..

Mina.

[Tribble]

Yeah - I wonder about him too sometimes. Not often - just sometimes.