For all you spider people:

ped-i-palp  n. [ModL. pedipalpus: see PEDI- & PALPUS] either of the second
pair of appendages of spiders and other arachnids, variously developed for
grasping, sensing, fertilizing, etc.

From Webster's New World Dictionary Second College Edition, 1972

John

John & Cheryl Jacobs
Seffner, FL
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----- Original Message -----
From: Kurt Auffenberg <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: Need Living Euglandina rosea


I'll keep my pedipalps to the ground for you.  After a dry spring, the
summer weather pattern of unbearable heat and humidity, followed by
afternoon thunderstorms have set in for North Florida.  Good Euglandina
weather.

Kurt

At 04:11 PM 6/29/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Kurt,
>Thank you for the information and you are right! The Euglandina rosea don't
>seem to be abundant anywhere in South Florida. However, you could easily
>collect dozens on a single morning on Raiatea, French Polynesia, a few
years
>ago. This is related to the population explosion effect which many exotic
>species undergo when they are first introduced into a new area. I was
>mistakenly using the abundance of the snail in Polynesia as the standard
>when I sent out the request, and was assuming the populations would be
>equally as abundant in Florida. I am not going back to Polynesia soon,
>unless I win the Lottery so I would still like to obtain 10 or more animals
>to have enough of a sample size so the results of the testing would be
>valid. I have run some preliminary tests on a single adult snail, and the
>results are encouraging. I would love to get some more specimens to
continue
>the work. The snail is doing well after 3 weeks on a diet of Subulina, and
I
>could feed about a dozen more Euglandina. The E's are easy to ship. You
just
>let them attach to a substrate, dry out and seal off overnight, wrap them
in
>several layers of  Kleenex, put them in a small, crush proof cardboard box,
>and mail them off on a two day express delivery. I'm offering a $10 per
>snail honorarium, which is enough to cover the postage, and still buy a 25
>cent cigar! I would appreciate the help of anyone who stumbles across this
>animal.
>Cordially,
>Roger
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kurt Auffenberg [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 12:35 PM
>> To:   [log in to unmask]
>> Subject:      Re: Need Living Euglandina rosea
>>
>> Roger,
>> I'll keep my eyes open, but like most carnivores, Euglandina are few and
>> far between.  I usually find one here, one there.  Not ten or 20.
>>
>> To those members living in SW FL . . . .You have the highest densities of
>> Euglandina rosea I've seen in the state....roadside ditches.  Hey, what
>> else could you guys possibly have on your agendas this weekend??  Don't
go
>> see StarWars again.
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>> At 11:44 AM 6/23/99 -0500, you wrote:
>> >Dear Members,
>> >I need about 10-20 living Euglandina rosea, the rosy glandina or rosy
>> >wolfsnail from the southeastern US to run tests on a snail repellent
made
>> >from hot pepper extract. We would like to set up a fiberglass panel
>> >exclosure in a Polynesian forest where endemic Partula snails used to
>> occur
>> >and re-introduce them from captive breeding stocks. Unfortunately, the
>> >introduced predator Euglandina is still present in small numbers there.
>> If a
>> >cheap and environmentally friendly snail repellant can be found, the
>> >reserves can be set up inexpensively. Hence the need for the live
>> Euglandina
>> >test snails.
>> >Can anyone supply some live specimens?
>> >Thank you for any help, Roger Klocek
>> >
>