Re: posting issues + camouflage and movement

[Guest guest]

, I've noticed messages sometimes take hours to appear or don't

appear.

Re camouflage and movement, I recently got a flea trap and plugged it in

(little dome with sticky pad at bottom, low wattage light over the pad)

and very quickly saw four of the dark mites on the pad. Can't see white

ones on white pad BUT I shone a light on the little roof and rim of the

trap to see if any were on the outside of the trap, and there were lots

of the white ones. They often seem to be in a large group. When I put

down some boric acid powder recently, I found a large group of the white

ones had gone from the carpet onto the outer casing of the vacuum

cleaner I'd left in the hall. And I have seen them move, but agree they

keep still for ages and I think it's because they know we are looking...

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> I posted a message this afternoon and nothing has shown up yet. I

notice new messages are very sparse. is at it again.

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> Just in case this DOES get through and the first one doesn't, I'm

going to include it in this message because sometimes when there are

issues, one gets through but no more will.

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> protective coloration (zoology): used for concealing, revealing, or

deceiving--Fact Monster

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> Coloration or color pattern of an animal that affords it protection

from observation EITHER BY ITS PREDATORS OR ITS PREY...The pigmentation

of some animals (e.g., the chameleon and the flounder) changes to

resemble different backgrounds.-- Fact Monster

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> A strategy that organisms use to avoid or deflect the attacks of

predators by misleading the latter's visual senses.--answers.com

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> A color pattern that blends with the environment and increases the

animal's probability of survival. -- SciTech Dictionary

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> Re the fact that we don't see our critters move: it suddenly occurred

to me after months of look, see no movement, photograph and discard that

maybe the critters had some awareness of me as a threat and were PLAYING

POSSUM.

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> They were.

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> If I leave my lighted analog or digital microscope in place long

enough, if they have any movement left in them, they are gonna sort of

start slowly moving one of their little antennae to see if they get a

reaction out of me. The longer I watch one like that, the more they

move.

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