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  1. 23-08-2010 #1
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    Would their eggs/young stay in water over winter - or several winters then?

    It seems a bit late in the year to be thinking of bringing up family!
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    Lovely shot Joe, I guess they'll keep going until the weather gets too cold.
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    Maybe they do it to keep warm!
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    Now... thats a good idea.
    I think their young live in the water for a couple of years
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    I just looked it up (it's surprisingly hard to find a site that gives you just the info you want).
    Apparently they can take 2 -3 years under water - then just crawl up a stem and 2 hours later they are up and about as an adult - lasting then from just a couple of weeks to 3 mnths. I find it fascinating that so many of these little creatures take ages to get to adulthood, mate then die when we spend most of our lives as adults. Ain't nature weird?
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    Thanks for that info, Louise!

    Yes, and we're part of nature.......

    But the people on this site are the exception I guess!
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    LOL - are you trying to say that we are man-made aberrations? I'd just go for freaks of nature

    I nearly always look stuff up after it's been mentioned here, in the vain hope that I will learn something. Unfortunately, with my memory it rarely does
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    Well, it was you who said, 'Ain't nature weird?', so I was just carrying on with the theme...
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