Collie Ennis
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some stickleback eggs can stick to the legs and he'll fly off and maybe get touristy again later on today land into your little pond and then one day you're there going how the hell did the stickleback get into my pond or how the hell did the roach get from here to here and it's just purely down to this evolutionary trick that the fish came up with to help them disperse naturally
It's really cool.
Lots of stuff like that.
Daphnia, which is a type of water flea, blows on the wind.
So you can just put a bucket there in your back garden and then wait.
And if you're anywhere within a pond, miles of pond, eventually you can look into the water and you'll see these little creatures darting around under Daphnia, which are like the real, the kind of plankton of fresh water.
And they start off on the wind as eggs blowing around.
No, no.
So say if they were in a bucket or a pond or a puddle and it dries out and their eggs are in the dust.
It's mad.
Or the edge of a pond as a reservoir goes down and there's dirt there.
The eggs could be in that and as it dries up and get dusty, they're off it goes.
And as soon as they get wet again, I think everybody would have had what's already called sea monkeys.
Well, we'll stick with the Daphne then.
What were we doing with them?
And you said that three or four times.
I'm like, it's a lockbox.
It had specific locks on it.
It wasn't just... It looked like a Chinese takeaway container, but I would not bring the most dangerous spider in Ireland to your gig in a Chinese takeaway box.
Yes, and look, come here, the claim is that their venom is so strong because they're desert creatures, and desert creatures tend to have this really funky venom.