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|  Subject: Sexing locusts  Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:26 pm | |
| Does anybody know which is which with locusts? male or female?
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tilly790
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| | Subject: Re: Sexing locusts Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:41 pm | |
| | No idea but perhaps if you google it you could find out. |
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Snakes Incorporated
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| | Subject: Re: Sexing locusts Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:22 pm | |
| | I remember studying that in grad 6 or 7. As it was more than thirty yours ago I have forgotten but will ask around. |
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| | Subject: Re: Sexing locusts Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:46 pm | |
| Though the female and the male look alike, they can be distinguished by looking at the end of their abdomen. The male has a boat-shaped tip while the female has two serrated valves that can be either apart or kept together.
These valves aid in the digging of the hole in which an egg pod is deposited.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust |
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| | Subject: Re: Sexing locusts Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:20 pm | |
| yea iv mastered it now, but thanx anyway 
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| | Subject: Re: Sexing locusts Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:37 pm | |
| | No worries. |
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