RE: Pill bugs/sow bugs
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- Subject: RE: Pill bugs/sow bugs
- From: D* B* T*
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 07:58:21 -0600
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Narda, maybe you know this for a fact, but asking me if it's right: doesn't
sound right! I always thought "bug" was the street word for "insect."
OK, so I checked my little deskside dictionary. Bug is defined first as an
insect "or other creeping or crawling invertibrate animal."
Insect seems to be a subgroup of bugs: "any of a major group of small,
usually winged animals (as flies, bees, beetles, and moths) with three pairs
of legs." Thinking of insects as animals is another strange thing even tho
I know they're part of the fauna....
So spiders and centipedes are also bugs but not insects. Very
interesting--thanks for the note!
Diann
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From: owner-hosta-open@mallorn.com
[o*@mallorn.com]On Behalf Of NardaA@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 8:05 PM
To: hosta-open@mallorn.com
Subject: Re: Pill bugs/sow bugs
In a message dated 3/25/01 9:03:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,
diannthoma@earthlink.net writes:
<< So, are Arthropoda bugs?? (Looked like that's what they were.)
>>
Yes bugs, but not insects. Insects are bugs but bugs are not necessarily
insects. Sound right? N.
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