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Post by toni on May 12, 2009 10:28:10 GMT -5
What do you think? ? Look at the pattern on the side of the SLUG and Barbs specimen! I was looking at "gastropods" which are snails and slugs, because of the darts I'm getting out of my lesion, which snails and slugs shoot calcious darts! And then I found this sucker, it's a pic of a slug, which looks just like CTBarbs specimen!!! Oh....doesn't it???
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Post by toni on May 12, 2009 10:29:30 GMT -5
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Post by toni on May 12, 2009 10:48:05 GMT -5
I enlarged the slug so we can see the pattern on it's side better, and it sure shyte looks like Barbs specimen!
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Post by bessie on May 12, 2009 11:14:30 GMT -5
Yes, it certainly looks the same. I think it was kmarie who posted a link to an older statement by Wymore where he gives a link to where a relatively cheap dna test can be done on samples. Barb - If you are willing to take a tiny piece of it and put it between two slides, tape it up, and mail it in I will pay for whatever costs are involved.
Bessie
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Post by bessie on May 12, 2009 11:28:59 GMT -5
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Post by toni on May 12, 2009 11:29:29 GMT -5
Thanks Bessie. And the DNA tests? I've sure got some goodies I'd like tested too (not at your expense of course). But where? Thanks (( Bessie, I'm modifying my post)) right now because we must have been posting practically at the same time (or I was typing when you were posting that link or DNA place I was questioning). Thank you!
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Post by bessie on May 12, 2009 11:41:29 GMT -5
Toni - Here it is:
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It would be fabulous if we could start getting some of this done on our own....the price is right!
Bessie
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Post by toni on May 12, 2009 11:43:17 GMT -5
Thank you very much! Yes, the price IS right! Can't beat those prices for sure.
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Post by toni on May 12, 2009 11:44:46 GMT -5
The LOVE darts are shot out of snails prior to mating, how horrid New York Times: These "love darts," which are made of calcium carbonate and are less than half an inch long, were once thought to be a gift of calcium from one snail to another. But in recent years, researchers have determined that dart-shooting has a different purpose: www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/06/06/MNGP7J91551.DTL
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Post by toni on May 12, 2009 11:50:45 GMT -5
And guess what snails and slugs love to eat: Lichen Both slugs and snails have similar lifestyles and amazing habits as Lionel discovers. They produce slime to assist mobility; which in some cases contains compounds to lure potential mates or deter predators with its foul taste! The fastest snails are the speckled garden snails which can move 50m per hour compared with 58cm per hour of most other land snails. And molluscs can even move upside down - locomotion by suction. Slugs and snails are hermaphrodite (contain both make and female sex organs). In spring snails use calcified "love darts" to inject each other and exchange sperm. Some slugs spiral one another and then launch themselves into the air like a pair of acrobats twisting and hanging together on a thick cord of slime whilst they mate. When it comes to feeding, snails have a radula or ribbon-like tongue covered in horny teeth which they use to scrape lichen off walls and rocks and a shell which prevents them from drying out. They rely on their sense of touch and smell for finding food, having very poor eyesight. www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/livingworld_20060402.shtml
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Post by toni on May 12, 2009 12:06:29 GMT -5
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/7498195.stmI'm posting this about this particular SLUG because it's been JUST RECENTLY discovered that this slug is carnivorous. Not that this has anything to do with anything, except the fact that there are over 100,000 different species of slugs, and they're ONLY in the learning stages about new ones all the time, and this particular slug doesn't eat veggies as they thought they did.
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Post by ctbarb on May 13, 2009 4:13:37 GMT -5
OMG! Those white slugs look so very much like some of the stuff that comes out of my nose and mouth!!! It just couldn't be the same thing, could it??? What worries me is that they are all the SAME in shape! It is very obvious that it is not normal nasal discharge of any kind. I actually had 2 of them come out of my mouth while I was in the pulmonologist's office one time, (the pulmonology group that fired me), it was standing on the end of my finger, moving around!!! It was about an inch long and he said it was villae! When asked if he could send it to the lab, he said no. Now looking back, they were clearly slugs, and they were white, and I'm still putting them out! OMG! Anyone else have them??? Toni, I posted a reply on the other thread about my visit to the ER and that there were snails/slugs in my samples....and the snail was alive....don't know if I said that in the thread? Let's keep on this track, we've obviously found a definite link to what is going on in our bodies....there IS a common denominator here...we are producing organisms that are found in the soil...and it goes right back to HGT - Horizontal Gene Transfer - GMO seeds and our FOOD SUPPLY! Look at the other thread for my take on this. Thanks again, Toni for remembering that pix...it IS A MATCH! Love, ctbarb
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Post by toni on May 13, 2009 7:53:09 GMT -5
Thank you! (this article is interesting) only because it shows that slugs and the 100,000 different species are still not yet known. This particular species was just discovered in 2006. That's why (a person infested with slugs) is a possibility, because we don't even know about them, as we only know what we're seeing and finding. (the darts, Barb with the slugs) etc. (I wonder if these darts cause our scratches too)? www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/articles/ghost-slug-discovered-in-wales.htmlThis is the newly discovered slug, but there's still 100,000 they don't know much about either. Video of this ghost slug (it's called)
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/7498195.stmIt's carnivorous - eats earth worms...which they thought slugs only ate vegetation...but nope they don't. This slug (can) reach 6 or 7 cm or about 2.5 inches in size, with its body extended.
It has no eyes, and is white in colour.
It is nocturnal, and unlike the majority of slugs, it is a carnivore, feeding on earthworms at night using its blade-like teeth.
The species was unknown to science prior to 2006.
[/color] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_slug
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Post by toni on May 13, 2009 10:22:40 GMT -5
Slugs: Potential Novel Vectors of Escherichia coli O157There's quite a few articles on slugs vectoring ALL kinds of bacteria, algae etc too. Here's just a couple. www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1352200And this is someones blog about a slug with algae in it's tummy. This one, barely 5 mm long, was one of them. It is definitely a juvenile, because there are no known species of slugs, at least in the eastern U.S., that don’t grow larger. So, I believe what we are seeing is what the slug had eaten, probably some algae.. snailstales.blogspot.com/2006/04/tiny-slugs-last-meal.html
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Post by massena on May 13, 2009 10:45:58 GMT -5
Toni I posted this guy before but I thought I'd post it again just to show that to me it looks like a slug . This sample I believe came from my nose. I think I have the same kind of pattern that you show above ,I'll put the photo on this thread so you can check it out. thanks,massena
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Post by massena on May 13, 2009 10:54:08 GMT -5
Do you think they look alike? This also came from my nose. maaena
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Post by toni on May 13, 2009 10:54:40 GMT -5
Massena,
That's a great picture! There's so many species of these too.
Bessie posted a link for a DNA analysis which is very good, and or if I were you, I'd look up "slugs snail experts" all over the world and send them as many pictures (with a penny next to it) for the size comparrison so they may see that, and ask them what they think too. That way they might be able to provide a name for what it appears to be from what they can see.
Thanks Massena. ;D
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Post by toni on May 13, 2009 10:56:07 GMT -5
Massena,
I just saw your second picture, (to me it sure as heck looks like that pattern doesn't it?) But I couldn't say (for certain) as this sure is a NEW avenue!
But wowie kazowie (that pattern imho) looks like it too!
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Post by toni on May 13, 2009 10:57:45 GMT -5
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Post by toni on May 13, 2009 11:02:35 GMT -5
Something else, ( but I'm so not read up on this) but I wanted to share it so anyone can look it up also. They lay ( EGG RIBBONS of all colors ). FACT Not sure of course if this has anything to do with anything. But...It might. And then again, maybe not.
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