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		<title>Crickets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2005 01:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crickets can be awfully noisy and sometimes destrutive. There are several types of crickets, three of the most popular are the house cricket, camel cricket and the field cricket.
 


Camel cricket (top left)-NCSU, Field cricket (top right)-University of California, House cricket (bottom)-University of Florida
Description 
House crickets live primarily in your house but they are born outside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Springtails</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cahri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Springtails are very tiny (.25-1mm long) insects with humpbacks, scales, 6 legs and have no wings. Colours range, transparent, white and various greys or black. 
 
Springtails-NC State University, Springtail-Carlo Denegri Foundation

Description 
They may be mistaken sometimes for fleas because they can jump just like a flea and the hump on the back. When disturbed they jump [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaf Cutting Bees</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cahri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaf-cutting bees (also called mason bees) are similar in colouration to the common honeybee but are a little smaller and darker with light yellow bands on their abdomen.

Leaf cutting bee-photo unknown

Description
Leaf-cutting bees differ from the honeybee because they are not agressive, are not social and do not normally sting.

Larvae-photo IPS
Habitat and Lifecycle
Adult leaf-cutters live 2-3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dragonflies &#038; Damselflies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cahri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dragonflies have long stout bodies with 2 pair of transparent wings. Damselflies have thinner bodies &#38; many species have metallic colourations. Both dragonfilies and damselflies sport large coloured eyes. 
 
Dragonfly (left)-Mark Simmons, Damselfly (right)-M. Reeder

Description
Their wingspan is almost as long as their bodies. They range in colour and sizes. There are thousands of species found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Centipedes &#038; Millipedes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cahri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Millipedes are red, brown, black or coppery coloured with wormlike segments each having at least 2 pairs of legs for each segment. (not to be confused with centipedes that have only one pair of legs per segment).
 
Millipede(left)-Florida Agriculture, A group of millipedes (right)-J. Kalisch, UNL

 
Centipede (left)-University of Nebraska, Centipedes (right)-Techcom
Description
They are about 1.5cm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soldier Bugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cahri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Soldier bugs are &#8216;True Bugs&#8217; and are related to stink bug but are not harmful to your crops. They are a beneficial that we all need in our gardens. It&#8217;s not so much that they just eat the bugs but they also LAY their eggs on the dead bodies! 

Spined soldier bug-Perdue University

Description 
They are brown, red, orange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salamanders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2005 23:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cahri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Salamanders are not insects but really are cold-blooded amphibians. They are not lizard family as they do not have scales. They are another beneficial in nature. 
 
Cave Salamander-NCSA, Long Tail Salamander-Ken Felsom

Description
They range in size and length (at least 10-20cm) since there are hundreds of species and range thoughout the world except in South America, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earwigs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2005 23:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cahri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Earwigs are dark brown insects, with pincers at the rear end and are about 1.5cm long. They are scarey looking especially if you see them in your house. 
 
Male Euopean Earwig (left), Insect Photos.net, Female Earwig (right)-University of Minnesota Extension Service

Description 
Usually they are not found in the house since they like moist dark areas during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate Bugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2005 00:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cahri</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Pirate bugs are predacious and beneficial (also called minute pirate bugs). Size is approx 4 mm long so they are difficult to see. 
 
Adult pirate bug-photo Biocontrol Network (left), Pirate Bug doing his job-Green Coast Hydroponics (right)

Description 
They are black/brown coloured and have wings but are not strong enough to fly around. They are usually carried in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garter Snakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2005 01:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Garter Snakes (also known as grass snakes) are found worldwide expect Antarctica. There are many different species of garter snakes. 
 
Common garter snake (left)-University of Maryland, San Francisco garter snake (right)

Description
They vary in size and colour depending on the areas they are found in. Brown, black, green and sometimes grey, garter snakes usually have a [...]]]></description>
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