Saturday, September 27, 2008

critter talk

The NetZero website this date features yet another article describing a "greening disease" that affects citrus crops -- first in FL and now recently in CA. Human populations that [now] move from CA to FL and back (typically from northern CA) have adopted a mental-mindset of limestone carriers (see composition of corn tortillas) that to some extent is a match with sub-tropical hermit crab behavior, such crabs carrying univalve seashells within which they hide or carry minerals to their fellow crabs and which resemble tiny pyramid carriers. Hermit crabs are found in southern CA, FL and elsewhere within the Atlantic seaboard regions.

Alas, and with alarm was noted a live earwig casting on the sidewalk here at Kingswood condo complex in Stuart, FL. Earwigs have pincer-type tail extensions and appear to be a type of augmented beetle. Earwigs are common in the northwest PA mountains near the oracle-bead chronicle artifact site in Degolia, PA. Although the San Francisco peninsula in CA is a location that supports a living historical palm-tree preserved as a near-microscopic baby-palm-tree image within the Degolia oracle-bead, no earwigs were observed during an almost 30-year time period within that region. Salamanders, centipedes and spiders typical of the McKean County, PA, locale were settled in near the oracle-shown tree, but no earwigs were visible or detected.

If earwigs begin "hitching a ride" to CA, will Chowchillans visit more grief upon the upper Appalachian populations maintaining properties in FL?

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