Invasive Species B/C

[Magikarpmaster629]

Here's a gastropod! (Click to Show Hidden Text)

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1. Scientific and Common name
2. How was it introduced?
3. It is a vector for diseases that affect what?

ANS (Click to Show Hidden Text)

Achatina fulica, giant African snail, introduced by pet trade, food resources, and (of course) accidentally, meningitis

For 3, I wanted that it affects both animals and plants with diseases that it carries, but great answer!

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Identify by common and scientific name.
Where is it native to?
What biological methods do scientists use to help get rid of it?

[bubby2bubby2]

Wow, this is pretty early... Well, I'll probably join in after a bit of studying.

[Magikarpmaster629]

Identify by common and scientific name.
Where is it native to?
What biological methods do scientists use to help get rid of it?

Hmmm.... (Click to Show Hidden Text)

1. Red Imported Fire Ant, [i]Solenopsis invicta[/i]
2. South America
3. They use a "bait" that attracts the ants, the bait is insecticide, killing the ants when they try to eat it.

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Identify by common and scientific name.
Where is it native to?
What biological methods do scientists use to help get rid of it?

Hmmm.... (Click to Show Hidden Text)

1. Red Imported Fire Ant, [i]Solenopsis invicta[/i]
2. South America
3. They use a "bait" that attracts the ants, the bait is insecticide, killing the ants when they try to eat it.

Yes and yes, but for 3, insecticide is a physical method. Examples of biological methods would be protozoans (Thelohania solenopsae), fungi (Beauveria bassiana), flies (Pseudacteon tricuspis and Pseudacteon curvatus), viruses (SINV-1) or parasitic ants (Solenopsis daguerrei).

Your turn!

[Magikarpmaster629]

1. Genus and Common name
2. Where and when did it invade the US?
3. Where is it native to?
4. What is the name of the disease it carries?
5. What kind of pathogen carries that disease?
6. Is its effect more ecologic or economic?

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1. Genus and Common name
2. Where and when did it invade the US?
3. Where is it native to?
4. What is the name of the disease it carries?
5. What kind of pathogen carries that disease?
6. Is its effect more ecologic or economic?

At first I thought it was a cricket.

ANS (Click to Show Hidden Text)

Genus: Diaphorina
Common Name: Asian citrus psyllid
Where: Florida, spread to entire southeastern part of US
When: 1998
Native to: Asia
Vector for: Huanglongbing
Pathogen: Bacteria
Economic

[Magikarpmaster629]

Correct!

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Correct!

Harder one:

Common Name, Genus, Spread, Common Season(s) of Flowering, Method of Introduction, Part of US it Affects, Methods of Control (Click to Show Hidden Text)

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[JoJoKeKe]

Common Name, Genus, Spread, Common Season(s) of Flowering, Method of Introduction, Part of US it Affects, Methods of Control

[hide]While I'm not 100% certain, it could be...

Tamarix Gallica, "salt cedar", Flowers in Winter, Brought over from the middle-east, Effects southwestern United States, applying herbicide to the stump of tree. (This is probably way off if it's the wrong organism.)|[/hide]

NOTE: Can you please let me know how to hide responses, I've yet to figure it out.