pisstoria
pisstoria
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Some, like the ivy aphid are already in North America, but I'm not sure how much of a dent it actually makes. There's great precedent for successful introduction of biocontrol agents for other invasive species. There's also great precedent for catastrophic failures(especially in instances where there's a native close relative of a target species), so it's definitely something that needs to be very carefully explored and not to be done haphazardly.
It doesn't have the same pests and diseases as in Europe to keep it in check.
there seems to be
the album this track is on has got to be one of my all time favorites.
they must be waiting for a birthday or something.
What's happening?
tourism to the galaxy leader has started to reach zoomer vloggers.
i watched one of his videos out of curiosity and one of the guys he filmed with apparently went to yemen to check out the galaxy leader lmao. wild seeing this subject covered by this style of channel.
They're like assassin bugs that go for mammal blood.
While I agree with killing bugs that harm people, there's a caveat for smashing in particular. Smashing a biting kissing bug will just rub all of its guts and likely Chagas infested feces into the bite. It probably applies to a number of other biting bugs to varying extents depending on how they might spread disease, but kissing bugs and Chagas are the examples I know. Really, I just really think everyone should be aware of Chagas disease and am using this thread as an excuse to mention it.
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Cool. I was the lone vote for Claudia De La Cruz in my county.