Steve,

So your drill was going about its business searching for adult oysters but got into a spat.

David


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>From: Steve Rosenthal <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Dec 10, 2012 2:44 PM
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>Subject: [CONCH-L] prey becomes predator?
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>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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