Team Peep Show - The Sequel (Page 69)

mchally - 2009-03-14 8:53 PM

OK, one of my many assignments is to do profiles on three pests of my choice...number one is the aphid...because they are everywhere.

cool thing here is that these guys are going down...see the tan round guys? The are aphids too-they are just skeletons of their former selves. They have been parasitized by a aphidiid wasp...it laid an egg inside it, which became a larvae who ate the aphid alive from the inside...the larvae then pupates and bores it's way out of the aphid's exoskeleton as an adult...then goes forth and parasitizes hundreds of aphids every day.

Yep, those aphids are all goners.

triguynewbie - 2009-03-14 9:39 PM Sorry to invade (again) but you guys are having so much fun here.  Rudy...what kind of wetsuit did you recomend again...the one I bought got shreaded by my dog today

triguynewbie - 2009-03-14 9:42 PM Am I a party killer or what?

mchally - 2009-03-14 9:53 PM

OK, one of my many assignments is to do profiles on three pests of my choice...number one is the aphid...because they are everywhere.

cool thing here is that these guys are going down...see the tan round guys?  The are aphids too-they are just skeletons of their former selves.  They have been parasitized by a aphidiid wasp...it laid an egg inside it, which became a larvae who ate the aphid alive from the inside...the larvae then pupates and bores it's way out of the aphid's exoskeleton as an adult...then goes forth and parasitizes hundreds of aphids every day. 

Yep, those aphids are all goners.

LazyMarathoner - 2009-03-14 10:04 PM

Bad dog! That is horrible! I need another wetsuit myself.

D001 - 2009-03-14 10:06 PM Well, just send your current one over to Mike's house, so that his dog can eat it.... That way: a) the dog will have fun b) buying a new one will become really high priority!

D001 - 2009-03-14 7:06 PM Well, just send your current one over to Mike's house, so that his dog can eat it.... That way: a) the dog will have fun b) buying a new one will become really high priority!

mchally - 2009-03-14 10:17 PM

I am also profiling thrips and cabbage worms, but I figure a pest a day is plenty to subject you to. 

mchally - 2009-03-14 9:17 PM I am also profiling thrips and cabbage worms, but I figure a pest a day is plenty to subject you to.

disturbed275 - 2009-03-14 7:26 PM

are we still talking about insects?  

disturbed275 - 2009-03-14 10:26 PM

are we still talking about insects?  

The males are wingless, extremely rare and are not needed for reproduction.

LazyMarathoner - 2009-03-14 9:34 PM

Let's talk about food instead!

LazyMarathoner - 2009-03-14 7:34 PM

Let's talk about food instead!

mchally - 2009-03-14 9:38 PM

my fritos are getting stale.

mchally - 2009-03-14 9:36 PM

oooh, you've gotta love this...

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disturbed275 - 2009-03-14 7:39 PM

I'll take the bait.  So what are they good for? 

disturbed275 - 2009-03-14 7:39 PM

I could really go for some fritos and chili right about now 

disturbed275 - 2009-03-14 10:37 PM

that'll just make me hungry again 

disturbed275 - 2009-03-14 10:39 PM

I could really go for some fritos and chili right about now 

LazyMarathoner - 2009-03-14 7:46 PM

I might bake a snickerdoodle. I worked out for 4 hours today, I think I've earned it.

mchally - 2009-03-14 10:49 PM If you are going to bake you need to make more than one.  geez...

LazyMarathoner - 2009-03-14 7:50 PM

Nope. They are the individually frozen dough balls from Trader Joes. That's the beauty of them. You can make one at a time.