Re: Could insects have caused dinosaur extinctions?

["Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Anthony Docimo wrote:
> > > Now that's impressive. From 'insects may have used chemical weapons 
> > > during the Mesozoic' to 'insects may have helped drive dinosaurs to 
> > > extinction'. An olympic pole-vaulter would be envious of such a leap.
>
> wasn't that the premise behind the book "Dust" a while back?  the insect 
> populations undergo periodic drops, causing mass extinctions by the chaos of 
> other critters (ie spiders and bats) trying to fill insect niches.

Had to look this up. Wasn't periodic drops, but some sort of weird nature
gone wild - cannibal mites...

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue62/books.html