I like Pillow. Its visually right on, yet jacks with your sensibilities, Creepy!
A Fever of Ticks An Apparition of Amphipods A Shadow of Scorpions A Muck of Cavers I'm looking for on salamanders On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Louise Power <[email protected]> wrote: > To add to the fun, Wikipedia lists the following group nouns: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_in_English > > Some of my personal faves: > > a murder of crows, an unkindness of ravens and a stare of raccoons. > > I'd like to nominate the following for harvestmen: > > *a pillow of harvestmen.* > > > Louise > > ------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 09:54:30 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Texascavers] Cluster or Clutter of Spiders' Specifically > Harvestmen Daddy Longlegs > > > Just using this forum to have some fun.... > > Having just been out to a small cave on the BCI Bracken property that had > numerous pulsating mats of Harvestmen. You know the kind, where big mats of > them would peel off the walls and cover the cavers in the small entrance. > > I believe Ellie made a short video of same recently. > > It made me question if the proper name for a group of Spiders...Cluster or > Clutter is appropriate in this case. > > Same goes for a group of Crickets = Orchestra > Cave crickets are pretty quite. > > What say all of you. > Could we come up with some more appropriate and colorful 'Group' names for > our beloved cave creatures. > > I'll start > A Pulse Harvestmen > A Dragoon of Cave Crickets - they remind me of mounted infantry > > Other insects or names???? > >
