Comments on: Caution: Contains Viewing Material That May Not Be Suitable for Younger Cockroaches http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/03/10/caution-contains-viewing-material-that-may-not-be-suitable-for-younger-cockroaches/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Sat, 26 May 2012 01:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Emily Sommer http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/03/10/caution-contains-viewing-material-that-may-not-be-suitable-for-younger-cockroaches/comment-page-1/#comment-2777 Emily Sommer Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:15:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/03/10/caution-contains-viewing-material-that-may-not-be-suitable-for-younger-cockroaches/#comment-2777 Wow. Thats awesome. In a very creepy, disturbing kind of way... Its like something out of Aliens. Or something. Wow. Thats awesome. In a very creepy, disturbing kind of way… Its like something out of Aliens. Or something.

]]> By: furlong http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/03/10/caution-contains-viewing-material-that-may-not-be-suitable-for-younger-cockroaches/comment-page-1/#comment-2776 furlong Sat, 11 Mar 2006 02:55:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/03/10/caution-contains-viewing-material-that-may-not-be-suitable-for-younger-cockroaches/#comment-2776 Ah, memories. As a boy I would pluck monarch caterpillars from milkweed plants near home. Over a few weeks I'd watch as they formed a chrysalis and ultimately marvel at the butterfly that emerged. But not always. Once I watched a caterpillar attach itself to the bottom of the Smuckers jar lid, writhe a bit (as they were wont to do during metamorphosis) and to my horror and lasting fascination several maggots split the skin and dropped to the bottom of the jar on a thin string of mucus, whereupon they hardened into unmistakeable fly egg-cases. The tachinid fly, I later learned. A paradigm shift in a Smuckers jar! With a name like Smuckers.... Ah, memories. As a boy I would pluck monarch caterpillars from milkweed plants near home. Over a few weeks I’d watch as they formed a chrysalis and ultimately marvel at the butterfly that emerged. But not always. Once I watched a caterpillar attach itself to the bottom of the Smuckers jar lid, writhe a bit (as they were wont to do during metamorphosis) and to my horror and lasting fascination several maggots split the skin and dropped to the bottom of the jar on a thin string of mucus, whereupon they hardened into unmistakeable fly egg-cases. The tachinid fly, I later learned. A paradigm shift in a Smuckers jar! With a name like Smuckers….

]]> By: Gal Haspel http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/03/10/caution-contains-viewing-material-that-may-not-be-suitable-for-younger-cockroaches/comment-page-1/#comment-2775 Gal Haspel Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:14:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2006/03/10/caution-contains-viewing-material-that-may-not-be-suitable-for-younger-cockroaches/#comment-2775 nice to hear familiar voices :) (i think that the official non-scientific name for the wasp is "The Jewel Wasp" but then again, she might have two) nice to hear familiar voices :)

(i think that the official non-scientific name for the wasp is “The Jewel Wasp” but then again, she might have two)

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