Sunday 4 July 2021

If It's Not One Plague, It's Another!

The extreme heat and drought in the US West provides ideal conditions for the hatching of grasshopper eggs. Swarms of these insects are now devouring all the vegetation on farms and ranches (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/04/grasshopper-swarms-us-west-drought). This is highly predictable, as the environmental conditions force the grasshoppers to fly in search of food. They become just like the proverbial locust!

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When Did They Come to the UK? 5. The American Mink

The American mink ( Neovison vison ) arrived in the UK for fur breeders in 1929. They were first reported breeding in the wild in 1956.