Re: (TFT) Hymenopteran Version

["Cas and Lisa \(also Silvia, Max & Viveka\) Liber" <casliber@ozemail.com.au>]

Aaah, simple Dan, make the hymenopterans have a slave race of spiders which
make web-rafts.........

I was in Queensland last year and the eucalyptus trees have these large ant
nests in them which are halfway beteween a baseball and basketball in size -
so a raft of silk and wood may be an option.....

I sorta wish SJ had known more about insects, as hymenopterans are
technically Ants/Bees/Wasps where as bugs are Hemipterans and beetles are
Coleopterans. The difference between beetles and bugs are bugs have
proboscises and beetles have jaws............


> I hate to inject science into this discussion, but a raft of
> living TFT hymenoptera is impossible.  Water surface tension
> simply will not support the weight of a TFT hymenoptera, let
> alone a group of them trying to make a raft of themselves.
>
> And a raft of such things at sea?  Not likely to last long
> as wave action will quickly destroy the surface tension.
>
> Such an idea *is* scary though ... perhaps if the hymenoptera
> could build a wooden craft (unlikely), used magic to stay
> afloat (also unlikely) or could actually float (interesting).
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