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
>
>
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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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