Photos of trip to Costa Rica, December 2004- crphotorg2anv

Costa Rica, December 2004

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Dung beetle.

These snails were about 1 to 2 cm across.

This splendid stick insect had two "thorns" just ahead of the wing attachments. The scond pair of wings, hidden under the first when not flying, were a gorgeous dark, soft orange.

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A little plea: Call me pedantic if you must, but could I plead for the extermination of a word in our language that I think we'd all be better off without?

The offending (to me at least!) word is "invertebrates". My arguement? You might as well say that the colors we see are divided into "red" and "not-red". What do the "invertebrates" have in common that justifies a name that makes them sound like a group?

If animals must be split into a main group and "the rest", at least split them into arthropods and non-arthropods.

In an etymologically similar vein: Consider eschewing "inflammable". Most people know that it means the same thing as "flammable", but tragic accidents have occured through not-unreasonable misunderstandings.

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