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Sunday, October 4, 2015

ScienceDaily: Nature News

ScienceDaily: Nature News


Trade in invasive plants is blossoming

Posted: 03 Oct 2015 10:50 AM PDT

Every day, hundreds of different plant species -- many of them listed as invasive -- are traded online worldwide on auction platforms. This exacerbates the problem of uncontrollable biological invasions.

Pathogen-carrying neotropical ticks ride migratory birds into US

Posted: 02 Oct 2015 11:49 AM PDT

Tick species not normally present in the United States are arriving here on migratory birds. Some of these ticks carry disease-causing Ricksettia species, and some of those species are exotic to the US.

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