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Posted April 7 2020 - 8:54 PM
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This is really cool. Came by a spider group on FB.
Spiders actually use shells as homes ... but with a twist.
Speaking of which, a video about how hermit crabs line up in size order to exchange shells:
Past & Present
Veromessor pergandei, andrei, stoddardi; Novomessor cockerelli
Camponotus fragilis, Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola, CA02
Pogonomyrmex subnitidus, P. californicus (inactive)
Liometopum occidentale (inactive); Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive); Tetramorium sp. (inactive); Lasius sp.
Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis, and a box of drywood termites that can't be seen
Isopods: (most no longer keeping) A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus, P. pruinosus, T. tomentosa
Spoods: (no longer keeping) Phidippus sp., other
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Posted April 7 2020 - 9:00 PM
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And just to add one more, the famous octopus with coconut shells.
Past & Present
Veromessor pergandei, andrei, stoddardi; Novomessor cockerelli
Camponotus fragilis, Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola, CA02
Pogonomyrmex subnitidus, P. californicus (inactive)
Liometopum occidentale (inactive); Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive); Tetramorium sp. (inactive); Lasius sp.
Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis, and a box of drywood termites that can't be seen
Isopods: (most no longer keeping) A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus, P. pruinosus, T. tomentosa
Spoods: (no longer keeping) Phidippus sp., other
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Posted April 8 2020 - 5:52 AM
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Posted April 8 2020 - 6:43 AM
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No thanks, I prefer my skeleton on the inside. 
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Posted April 8 2020 - 6:55 AM
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I wouldn't mind a nice cozy shelll to slurm around in.
Edited by FSTP, April 8 2020 - 6:55 AM.
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Posted April 8 2020 - 9:14 AM
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It'd be a revolution in social distancing.
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Posted April 8 2020 - 9:23 AM
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It'd give us something larger to cough into than our elbow..........
"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version
Keeping:
Tetramorium immigrans Camponotus vicinus, modoc, novaeboracensis, herculeanus
Formica pallidefulva, argentea Solenopsis molesta
Formica cf. aserva Lasius brevicornis, neoniger
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