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RE: snail sympathy

Yes I saw Microcosmos.
I really enjoyed it especially as there 
were two other biologists with me
and we spent most of the film trying to 
work out what all the plants were.

Heaps of them were common ruderal weeds
not in Australia.      :-)

For those who haven't seen it
there is no script to this movie
just great music. And people chatted 
all through talking about what we were seeing.

The only movie I've ever been to where
talkers weren't hushed up  :-)

Cheers, Rod

Rod Randall

Weed Risk Assessment
Weed Science Group, Agriculture Western Australia
Home Page  http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/progserv/plants/weeds/Weedsci.htm

             "I weed..."

> ----------
> From: 	rachel
> Reply To: 	Rachel@haasjr.org
> Sent: 	Saturday, 9 May 1998 2:04 AM
> To: 	medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: 	snail sympathy
> 
> I'm loathe to admit this, but ever since seeing that fabulous French 
> documentary, "Microcosmos", about the insects in the south of France, 
> I've had a hard time ruthlessly killing snails.  There was a 
> beautiful, sensual scene of two snail copulating to a  soundtrack of 
> Maria Callas.  So now, I chuck them down the stormdrain.  Wimpy, I 
> know, but I've lost my delight in watching them die. 
>
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