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"Ha! Whare ye gaun, ye crawlin ferlie? Your impudence protects you sairly; I canna say but ye strunt rarely Owre gauze an lace; Though faith! I fear ye dine but sparely On sic a place."
Arthropod[M]osquito control can be a two-edged sword. ...the WNV spraying coinc — Arthropod
"[M]osquito control can be a two-edged sword. ...the WNV spraying coincided with the loss of ninety percent of the lobster population, about eleven million lobsters, in the waters of the Long Island Sound. Other s, such as s and , also died in great numbers. It is likely that the next generation of crustaceans was poisoned as well by insecticides leaching into the sound. For all their apparent differences, lobsters, crabs, starfish, and mosquitoes are all arthropods, and so vulnerable to the same toxins."
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Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda. They possess an exoskeleton with a cuticle made of chitin, often mineralised with calcium carbonate, a body with differentiated (metameric) segments, and paired jointed appendages. In order to keep growing, they must go through stages of moulting, a process by which they shed their exoskeleton to reveal a new one. They form an extremely divers
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