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Just be happy that we all continue to learn. Thanks for sharing about the red-winged blackbirds AND the Sandhill Cranes--you painted a beautiful picture for me. I can imagine looking up at the sound of their calls. (as far as I know we don't have them here...I'd have to check a reference book). |
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Tinley Park, Illinois, USA
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They are in a class called the Entognatha (sounds like something from a bad sci-fi movie), and are hexapods (6-legged) like insects, but there are sufficient other differences that have resulted in taxonomists separating them from the class Ectognatha (insects).
According to Wikipedia (brace yourselves, it's deep and meaningful): "The Entognatha is a class of ametabolous arthropods, which, together with insects, makes up the hexapods. Their mouthparts are entognathous, meaning they are retracted within the head. Entognatha are apterous, meaning they lack wings. The class contains three orders: Collembola (springtails), Diplura and Protura. These three groups were historically united with the order Thysanura to form the class Apterygota, but it has since been recognized that the hexapodous condition of these animals has evolved independently from that of insects, and independently within each order. The orders are not closely related, and so Entognatha is considered a polyphyletic group." Whew! I think it means that insects have mouth parts that stick out and most of them have wings. The Springtails are in a class that has the mouth parts more internalized, and no wings. Of course, someone else will come along in a few years and decide that's all wrong, and we'll have to re-write the books again. It's just taxonomists keeping themselves in a job, I think. ;-) John |
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Location: Pennsylvania
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Heres another one from our last snow storm:
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Virginia
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Location: Michigan
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dapjwy Nice bramble laden fence.............
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: S. Grafton, Massachusetts
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I like that one much, dapjwy. You have a good eye.
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Join Date: Dec 2008
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I see London I see France... I see dapjwy's bluebird box!!! Love it! The fence and shadows are greeeeeeeat! Here's two photos of the same Black-Crowned Night Heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.jpg. This bird was a battle ax. I was maybe only 30' away from him and he never budged. The others took off.
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Crystal clear too! Excellent....
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