RE: Correction to Radioactive Bugs

["Neil, David M" <neildm@id.doe.gov>]

I was joking!

You are correct - millipedes also have two pairs of legs per body
segment, chewing mouthparts, and are herbivores/scavengers, where
centipedes have one pair per segment, piercing mouthparts with venom
glands, and are carnivorous hunters.

B.A. (Zoology), University of South Florida, 1976

I gotta watch these offtopic excursions or Melissa will nail my hide to
the wall!

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Reynolds, Harold [SMTP:harold.reynolds@rfets.gov]
> Sent:	Thursday, October 08, 1998 2:52 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	RE: Correction to Radioactive Bugs
> 
> I think the big difference in this case is that centipedes are wide,
> flat,
> and move very fast where millipedes are narrow, round, and move very
> slowly.
> A millipede probably wouldn't have disappeared so quickly.
> 
> Harry
> Harold.Reynolds@RFETS.gov
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Neil, David M [SMTP:neildm%id.doe.gov@inet.rfets.gov]
> > Sent:	Thursday, October 08, 1998 2:37 PM
> > To:	Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject:	RE: Correction to Radioactive Bugs
> > 
> > Eh, what's an order of magnitude one way or the other.  :-D
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:	Reynolds, Harold [SMTP:harold.reynolds@rfets.gov]
> > > Sent:	Thursday, October 08, 1998 2:19 PM
> > > To:	Multiple recipients of list
> > > Subject:	Correction to Radioactive Bugs
> > > 
> > > Sorry, I don't know my bugs.  After consulting a reference on
> bugs, I
> > > realize that the culprit with the ARMs was actually a centipede
> not a
> > > millipede. I guess a lot of folks get the two confused.
> > > 
> > > Harry
> > > Harold.Reynolds@RFETS.gov
> > >
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