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Message: <blockquote data-quote="desert voice" data-source="post: 28982" data-attributes="member: 3066">well, there's now a sequel to my story.  i don't let things go very easily and i inspected her underside again a few times and what looks like the hole that secreted actually seems to have another on her other side.  they look symmetrically placed on the body but this one was more prominent and seemed to be where the fluids came out.  so i reasoned it could be excretion that was long overdue but charts that show the physiology make me think it's the trachea only haven't been able to figure that out.  so my last ditch effort is that i googled "entomologist in arizona" and found someone in tucson who has a small celebrity bit on a radio show or something online and invited questions.  so i've written to be sure that what i saw could be a larva making a hole and causing fluids to come out.  nothing has happened since that either and she's actually getting stronger.  when i turn her over, all of her feet now cling to the paper towel i keep her on and more so each day to where i have to use my paint brush to gently unattach them one at a time and they reattach as i move along.  it's kinda neat that she's coming back but i really have to know about the leakage.  it would be awful to keep her and have her die that way in the end.  i finally found out the entomologist is a county extension agent so i called and found out he's on vacation but will be back this coming monday.  i left him a message there as well.  i will keep you up to date on any info that i should get from him.  thanks again katelyn!  hope you'll stick with me : )linda</blockquote>

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