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Article: Rare insects become golf course bugaboo
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 17, 1988
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. The discovery of two varieties of an insect
described as "the smallest daddy longlegs in the world" is holding up
construction of a golf course here.
The tiny spiderlike creatures, called blind harvestmen, live
only in serpentine rock formations in Edgewood County Park west of
Redwood City, and conservationists want the habitat preserved.
"Constructing a golf course would wipe out the whole harvestmen
populations," said Thomas F. Briggs, a high school science teacher
and associate researcher at the California Academy of Sciences who
discovered one of the subspecies in 1983 and the other in 1985.
Briggs and others have submitted a formal proposal to the U.S.
Fish ...