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	<title>The Backyard Arthropod Project &#187; Crustaceans</title>
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	<description>A Field Guide to the North Side of Old Mill Hill, Atlantic Mine, MI</description>
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		<title>About Arthropod Appendages</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/03/31/all-about-arthropod-appendages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing you can say about arthropods, is that they&#8217;ve got legs. Oh boy, do they have legs. And other appendages. They have crazy numbers of legs, wings, antennae, various mouthparts, you name it. It makes us poor tetrapods, with only four main appendages, look kind of short in the limb department. Which brings up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northern Clearwater Crayfish</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/06/12/northern-clearwater-crayfish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The cray is certainly not a fish, [but] a handsome crustaceous animal&#8221; &#8211; J. J. Audubon[1] I&#8217;ve been meaning to make an entry for crayfish for some time, so when we went down to Otter Lake in the third weekend of May, we made a point of finding one. This one was resting on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Library Bug Hunt Part 2: Yellow-spotted woodlouse and other crawling things</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2009/07/04/library-bug-hunt-part-2-yellow-spotted-woodlouse-and-other-crawling-things/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2009/07/04/library-bug-hunt-part-2-yellow-spotted-woodlouse-and-other-crawling-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wolf spiders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woodlice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, we looked at some of the bugs that the kids caught at our annual Bug Hunt at the public library, focusing on the ones that had wings [1]. This week, we&#8217;ll look at the wingless ones (wingless either because they are larvae or nymphs that haven&#8217;t developed wings yet, or because they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water Louse &#8211; Asellus</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2008/05/03/water-louse-asellus/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2008/05/03/water-louse-asellus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 10:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[April]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Water Lice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[detrivore]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The back part of our property drains into Cole&#8217;s Creek, which empties into Portage Lake about a mile to the west of us. It&#8217;s a pretty substantial stream, and one of the better places for catching smelt[1]. S_ has been going down there from time to time to check if the smelt run has started, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freshwater Amphipod &#8211; Gammarus</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2008/04/12/freshwater-amphipod-gammarus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Not really a freshwater shrimp Last Sunday, it was pretty warm, and S_ suggested that it would be a good day to take Sam down to the stream[1] to turn over some rocks to see what was underneath[2]. So, I grabbed this rock that was in the middle of the stream, turned it over, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pillbug &#8211; Armadillidium</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2008/02/16/pillbug-armadillidium/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2008/02/16/pillbug-armadillidium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[May]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fun to play with]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[And, in the &#8220;Things found under rocks&#8221; category, we have this specimen from back in May[1]. It is a &#8220;pillbug&#8221; (also known as &#8220;potato bugs&#8221;, &#8220;sow bugs&#8221;, &#8220;woodlice&#8221;, &#8220;roly-polys&#8221;, and probably dozens of other names). From the underside, we can see that the bulk of the body is mostly an illusion: the volume under the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woodlice</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2007/03/24/woodlice/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2007/03/24/woodlice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s arthropod is probably Porcellio scaber, the common rough woodlouse. I found these under a toolbox in the basement. We don&#8217;t have many of them at the moment, because the basement is currently quite dry. Since they are crustaceans and actually breathe through gills, woodlice can&#8217;t tolerate dry conditions because their gills dry out. [...]]]></description>
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