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| paqui |
Posted on 26-08-2006 20:29
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Member Location: Posts: 816 Joined: 02.09.05 |
I?ve foundt in http://www.amazon.fr (I supose it will be in other bookshops too) a nice field guide: -Title: Guide des mouches et des moustiques -Author: J. and H. Haupt -hardcover, 352 pages -editor: Delachaux et niestl? -year: 2000 (original edition 1998: Fliegen und M?cken, german), -price: approx 30e it has many interesting comments: *- Diptera?s speed: Tabanidae (about Kahis?comment they seem heat-missiles) can fly at 22Km/h. Cephenemyidae 40Km/h!!! are they perceptible or it?s you just feel something?s unbrushed your hair?  *-Ormia: it?s got "ears". Nice, i saw a tv program about it; an investigation tryng to find better ways to help people with hearing (??) problems. A poor nice Ormia was trapped over a painted ball (fixed too). They reporduced in a room the sound of a cricket coming from different sides and so the fly moved its legs in one or other direction following that sound, making the ball roll on the contrary direction!! ... |
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| paqui |
Posted on 29-06-2009 23:28
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Member Location: Posts: 816 Joined: 02.09.05 |
sorry, as I've lost the trace I donīt know if this is posted, itīs edited as dvd coming from a tv series: La guerre des mouches (mouches a tout faire) Mona lia production, Berrod, 2000 Flies in art, as meal, forensic use, etc. http://www.amazon.fr/guerre-mouches-Mouches-tout-faire/dp/B000F3ANM2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1246314442&sr=1-1 It doesenīt come with that cover, but itīs interesting and there are others for spiders...  |
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but don't see the image in the post.