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Tag Archives: herbivore
Stowaways in potted plants
Potted plants can seem so benign. Beautiful, fascinating, good to grow and give, but they may carry invasive species which are not benign. Tom Bawden at The Independent tells us about invasive species reaching Europe, including the New Guinea flatworm … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, horticulture, money and trade
Tagged alien species, America, Argentine ant, arthropod, Asia, Asian hornet, beetle, biosecurity, coleopteran, Europe, flatworm, garden, harlequin ladybird, herbivore, hymenopteran, insect, invasive species, invertebrate, ladybird, landscape, lepidopteran, light brown apple moth, lily beetle, mollusc, moth, native species, New Guinea flatworm, New Zealand flatworm, oak processionary moth, pest, plant_dicot, plant_gymnosperm, plant_monocot, predator, rosemary leaf beetle, slug, snail, Spanish slug
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A new invader to eat rice plants?
The Non-Native Species Secretariat (NNSS) for Britain doesn’t list apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata and P. maculata) as invasive species, but perhaps it should. Apple snails are aquatic. They spread when there’s flooding, when they cling onto larger animals or onto … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, miniculture
Tagged alien species, America, apple snail, aquaculture, Asia, crop, data, farmer, flood, gastropod, heliculture, herbivore, invasive species, map, mollusc, nematode, parasite, parasite transmission, pest, pet, plant_monocot, rice, roundworm, snail, vector, waterway
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Wolves and cod
What is a keystone species? Perhaps you know what that term means. But in case you want to find out, the National Geographic shows us a film and some words about keystone species. My fellow blogger skepticalsquirrel mentioned in a … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, fish
Tagged America, canid, climate, cod, conservation, ecosystem, finfish, fishing, herbivore, hummingbird, hunting, keystone species, lion, mammal, pollination, predator, sea, sea star, seafood, vertebrate, wild food, wolf
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Rabbit hunting
The rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is widespread and common in Britain. It’s not native here, being originally from the Iberian Peninsula. It was introduced about 1000 years ago and farmed for meat and fur. Now it’s naturalised and it eats crops, … Continue reading
Hair of the sloth
Wild sloths have symbiotic green algae and other organisms living in their fur. It’s adorable, isn’t it? But in captivity, sloths get bathed and hung up to dry. That’s adorable too. I suppose the zookeepers do it for the animals’ … Continue reading
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