h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

sounds like a lovely day Amy, I never knew you were from Widnes Dr Mo, I'm from Skelmersdale orginally, vaguly near by! ish

That's ok Smudger. The site was really playing up last night.

I love . One of the best things I've ever done was to sit in a piazza in Naples listening to a free classical music concert and watching the bats wheeling overhead. They were catching the insects attracted to the stage lights.

Ah yes, and I work in Runcorn, lovly area to die (er live).

I've only managed to see 2 spices, but I've managed to hear 3, we have the little sound boxes...

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Oh it's not that bad is it? at least you can get a house for less than a yaught (?sp)

Amy,I remember all the bats on the island of Gan they were the size of sea gulls, scared me!!
Smudger.

Yes true, most of the houses cost 35k or less , wonder why nobody wants to live here,

So I wonder why it's still expensive to rent...

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Doctor MO, I agree that moths are highly underrated. They have some of the most complex and beautiful wing patterns and it's cool if you can get up close to photograph them. Where are your pictures then?

I've only got the camara recently, so I've only managed a Green Vained White butterfly, but hey, next time I get invited to moth traping I'm take my camara.

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Sounds like a nice day out : So what have you changed in your diet Amy? Perhaps I've missed a journel entry We used to have tons of bats back at my fathers in the summer, coming in off the fens behind the house, and the woods in the same direction ot the light of the lounge window, that would attract millions of insects (a lot of which used to enjoy taking bites out of me), We had a amazing moth once, land on the outside of the window, so we could see the wings, I seem to remember it was something like a hawk moth was a long while ago we had rain and thunder today and it was so nice and warm down here just a sort while ago if it ever picks up again, I can go and sit in the sun at the cafe

hehe, I once caught a Hawk moth in my room in the summer, there big beasties, I let it go in the moth traping sesion that night, quite coincedental really

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I came across a poplar moth (? or is that a type of hawk moth?) a couple of years back. He was big enough to cause air traffic control some concern.

It was pretty big, as I remember, quite colourful I seem to remember

heh, yea, I know a few people that specialise in moths (even one that does micro moths, the kind you need decection tools and a microscope to identify), aperntly not as boring as people say, and they don't eat clothes, (the number of americans I hear, *sigh*).

I think the poplar is a hawk moth, probly the one I captured.

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I had a weird creature crawling about on my wall the other day. Had about sixteen legs and a kind of mottley body. No-one knows what it was, but it's probably my description that's cack.

We had a bear near our campsite last summer - there were claw marks on the tree that had the food bag in it.

Oh lovly.

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It's true whatthey say about cochroaches you know. I cannot confirm that they are immune to radiation, but my fiancee stepped on one, ( tho' she is small), it thought about it' stayed still for 5 minutes, and then waltzed of trailing bit of itself...

They are very resiliant, but they have been preyed upon by spiders for millions of years, so no suprise.

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The ones here eat spiders, ( with chopsticks)!

*practises using her antennae as chopsticks*

That works quite well. And the are delicious!

I didn't think worker Ants could go out for a bit of a spider at the weekend, thought you'd be to buisy.

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