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Hi! I am trying to think of a cool nickname related ants (common or scientific names). I have not been able to find one. Are there any out there?This is for World of Warcraft game (open beta soon)....

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I wish open beta come out sooner, im gonna be an orc warlock when I start

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Vendayn: Did you play the stress test back in September 2004? Check out my screen shots and comments: www.aqfl.net/?q=node/view/198 ...My screen shot got posted too on WoW's Web site! See my comment...

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ya, I was in stress beta, I was figuring out my class mostly, but my favorite so far is warlock and rouge...I love warlock pets nice screenies

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Vendayn, do you have any screen shots? Which pet(s) did you have? I want to try elf and get a pet (no bear and no boars). I really wished the game had ants so I could tame one. The closest bug I can...

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I took a bunch of screenies, I think..dunno if I have them stillI had a imp for a pet, but my max lvl I ever got to was 6-10, forgot which...I just played mostly to find a class I liked

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The Bullet ant has a sort of dwarf reference since they use guns in that game.

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MrILoveTheAnts: Hmm, good point there. I don't think I will get guns though."I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the...

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Not ants, but other naming oddities. Scroll down, there's an entire Tolkien section:home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy/taxEtym.html

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A lot of the Lepidoptera have names from Greek mythology. It's especially true of the swallowtail genus Papilio. Some examples: P. glaucus, P. troilus, P. polyxenes, P. ulysses, P. cresphontes. Then...

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Myrmecos1: Hahah! Funny. I only saw three names related to ants:1. Pheidole harrisonfordi Wilson, 2002 (ant) Named in recognition of Harrison Ford's involvement (as Vice Chairman) in Conservation...

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Somewhat OT, but I love some of the common names given to crickets, most especially trying to imagine the circumstances under which they were first chosen.Cycloptilum pigrum - Reluctant Scaly Cricket...

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Biddybot: At length, when they came to a (lowly) valley of ants, one of the ants said: "O ye ants, get into your habitations, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you (under foot) without knowing it."...

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I submitted the Web site about "Facts on Scientific Names of Organisms" to slashdot: science.slashdot.org/arti...17&tid=134Yay! Check out the comments people made! Even a comment about ants:...

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