Electrical conductivity of insects
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On unplugging from the EHU bollard around two dozen earwigs dropped out of the socket. Can't blame them for being in there as it would have been warm and dry during some diabolical weather conditions.
How many more do you recon would have been needed to short out the pins?
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I doubt they could get at the pins, just the outer shroud. I think, however, that a squashed earwig would be a good conductor.
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I did once trace a very slow ADSL broadband connection to a dead bee across the phone lines inside a junction box. (Reminicent of the proverbial original computer 'bug').
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The base of the plug where the three pins stick out had a couple stuck to it, but whether squashed or fried I wasn't standing about in rain to investigate.
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