Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Le Snakehead Is In La River
A large Indonesian snakehead fish (Channa micropeltes) was found dead in the Saint Charles River in Quebec last month - possibly the first find of this species in the wild in Quebec. It's thought to be a released pet. Need a French translation? Try this forum (towards the bottom of the page)
Labels: aquarium, aquatic species, Canada, fish, pets, Quebec, snakehead
Jennifer Forman Orth 9:04 PM
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The Age of Aquaria
Conservation Maven has an article about an interesting new study exploring aquariums as vectors for the accidental introduction of exotic species.
Labels: aquarium, aquatic plants, aquatic species, literature
Jennifer Forman Orth 9:01 PM
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Monday, May 24, 2010
There Is No Word That Rhymes With Tunicate
The invasive tunicate Didemnum was recently discovered in two Oregon bays.
Labels: Didemnum, marine, marine invertebrates, Oregon, tunicate
Jennifer Forman Orth 11:50 AM
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ALB And More
Think you know your bugs? Check out these Asian longhorned beetle look-alikes.
Labels: Asian longhorned beetle, beetles, education, insects
Jennifer Forman Orth 11:49 AM
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Walnut Bleak
Missouri, the top black walnut producer in the USA, has enacted a quarantine to prevent the introduction of Thousand Cankers disease from the Western USA.
Labels: Missouri, pathogens
Jennifer Forman Orth 11:47 AM
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Mixed Signals
A UK man who thought he was doing the environment a favor by catching invasive American signal crayfish out of a local river has been fined £4,000 ($8,000) aftger authorities discovered he had actually caught and eaten the native white-clawed crayfish, an endangered species. Also, turns out he was breaking the law just by trapping for crayfish in Cumbria.
Labels: aquatic species, Britain, crayfish, crustaceans, UK
Jennifer Forman Orth 10:45 PM
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Minneapolis Twigs
A recent report from the city of Minneapolis indicates that the city is poised to lose all 200,000 of its ash trees to the emerald ash borer. A summary of the Greenprint report is available here, and the entire report can be downloaded here.
Labels: beetles, emerald ash borer, insects, Minnesota
Jennifer Forman Orth 12:27 AM
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