10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOLPUGID»
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solpugid in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
solpugid and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
The creature somewhat resembles a cross between a large amber-coloured ant
and a spider. It is covered with bristling hair like wire, and has two pairs of
extremely strong jaws. A solpugid propels itself on eight long legs, and has two
strong, ...
Richard Ford, Greg Lynch, 2007
Although it was anatomically different from spiders, it had been assigned
membership in the order of arachnids and was called a solpugid. The solpugid
drew the biggest crowd at feeding time, partly because of its unusual appearance
, but ...
SOLPUGIDS The animal popularly referred to in California as a vinegar- roon is
in reality a solpugid. It bears little resemblance to a true vinegarroon and does
not give off a vinegarlike odor. Like the true scorpions and whip scorpions, the ...
Edmund Carroll Jaeger, 1950
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Catalogue of the Smaller Arachnid Orders of the World: ...
A review of solpugid families with an annotated list of western hemisphere
solpugids. Publication of the Office of Research, Western New Mexico University,
Silver City 2: 1-33. Muma, M.H. (1979). Arid-grassland solpugid population
variations ...
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Desert Arthropods: Life History Variations
Bull Br Arachnol Soc 8:261-264 Punzo F (1993a) Diet and feeding behavior of
the solpugid, Eremobates palpisetulosus (Solpugida: Eremobatidae). Psyche
100:151-162 Punzo F (1993b) An analysis of the free amino acids,
neurotransmitters ...
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Time and the Art of Living
Unlike a more terrible-looking eight-legged creature (a solpugid) caught a week
earlier, it did not assume menacing postures and try to escape. It merely waited.
My plan was to drown it in water, pickle it in gin and keep it as an admonitory ...
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Snake Hunting on the Devil's Highway
After we ordered food, Buz spotted a big ol' ugly solpugid scurrying along the
restaurant floor. "Look, Richard" he said "y°ur favorite kind of arachnid is right
over there." When Butch heard that and saw the bug, he jumped up and started ...
8
Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America
... water 106 whip, see whipscor- pion 24 wind, see solpugid 24 Scorpiones 24
Scorpionfly 40 short-faced 40 snow 38 Scotoleon nigrilabris 226 Screwworm 304
Scudderia furcata 76 Scutellariae 126 Scutigera coleoptrata 26 Scutigeromorpha
...
Eric R. Eaton, Kenn Kaufman, 2007
tus giganteus, may be as much as five inches long!).9 An arachnid frequently,
and naturally, confused with the true vinegarone is the solpugid — or wind-
scorpion,10 wind-spider, or sun-spider, as it is variously called by arachnologists
and ...
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Lone Star Menagerie: Adventures with Texas Wildlife
About a third of the entire solpugid is its head, and most of its head is its vicious-
looking mouth. This, in turn, is divided into four separate parts: Two are used to
catch and hold its prey while the other two chew it into a pulp and shove it down ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOLPUGID»
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solpugid is used in the context of the following news items.
Strange Animals In NYC. Camel Spiders And Wind Scorpions AT …
This work formed part of the Global Survey and Inventory of Solifugae (www.solpugid.com), and was funded in part by National Science Foundation grants ... «Yareah Magazine, Jun 15»
Sun spiders may be ugly, but they play key role in nature
A common and sometimes scary-looking critter that naturally occurs at Naval Base Ventura County is the sun spider, or Solpugid. Sun spiders are in the class of ... «Ventura County Star, May 13»
Camel spiders: Friend, not foe
It's Latin name is Eremobates pallipes and it is a predatory arachnid that is related to spiders called a Solpugid. • Myth: It is only native to the Middle East Region ... «Idaho State Journal, Aug 10»
Afghan spider forces Army family out of home
A camel spider is type of arachnid known as a solpugid, that can grow up to five inches long and run at up to 10mph. Iain Newby of Essex's Dangerous and Wild ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 08»
Edward Abbey's Last Book: A Sneak Preview
... ant lion, sidewinder, solpugid and vinegaroon, green ephedra and Indian paintbrush and prickly pear and Gambel oak and dagger-bladed flowering yucca. «Mother Earth News, Apr 08»
Camel Spiders: Behind an E-Mail Sensation From Iraq
"If any solpugid has anything they can inject, I haven't heard of it," said Rod Crawford, an arachnologist at the Burke Museum in Seattle, Washington. Crawford ... «National Geographic, Jul 04»
