That is to be expectorated.

Alan

On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Harry Lee wrote:

> or spat upon.
>
> Harry
>
>
> At 03:13 PM 12/10/2012, you wrote:
>> Steve,
>>
>> So your drill was going about its business searching for adult
>> oysters but got into a spat.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From: Steve Rosenthal <[log in to unmask]>
>> >Sent: Dec 10, 2012 2:44 PM
>> >To: [log in to unmask]
>> >Subject: [CONCH-L] prey becomes predator?
>> >
>> >an offshoot from my earlier post this week....
>> >one interesting specimen from the last visit to welwyn....i have seen a
>> >number of oysters- Crassostrea virginica- that were growing on the spires
>> >of periwinkles- Littorina littorea, where they presumably settled as spat.
>> >Sometimes the periwinkle was alive and sometimes not, i would assume that
>> >after the oyster grows too big the periwinkle may no longer be able to
>> move
>> >about or forage successfully.
>> >
>> >however on the last visit to this locality in the shell piles up on the
>> >beach i had a first- a small oyster around 20mm was growing out of the
>> >spire of a medium sized live oyster drill, Urosalpinx cinerea....possibly
>> >the only way an  oyster could turn the tables on the oyster drill?
>> >
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