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serpent
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 Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Bohan wrote: | Depends on what they've been eating i suppose?
I have found that when ruptured crickets can "bleed" clear and reddish liquids.
These animals are insects, some beetles utilize the blood of there victims and dont even make there own! tricky?  |
The color of insects 'Blood' has no bearing on what they have eaten.
Your last comment that they dont even make their own blood is totally ridiculous. Just sit and think about it for a while ...... sort of thing I would
expect to hear from a resident of the 12th century 
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sam
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:44 am Post subject: |
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There was a degree of artistic license used in my post  A good amount of red/orange fluid did come out of the cricket as it was eaten by the mantis, but this was food, not blood.
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Bohan
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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| serpent wrote: | | Bohan wrote: | Depends on what they've been eating i suppose?
I have found that when ruptured crickets can "bleed" clear and reddish liquids.
These animals are insects, some beetles utilize the blood of there victims and dont even make there own! tricky? |
The color of insects 'Blood' has no bearing on what they have eaten.
Your last comment that they dont even make their own blood is totally ridiculous. Just sit and think about it for a while ...... sort of thing I would
expect to hear from a resident of the 12th century |
Open up the stomach of a cricket thats been eating blackberries = red/black mess.
Not making there own blood may have been a bit rash but some predatory beetles do use the blood of their victims for all the same reasons.
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