silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 个月前‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisiswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square186fedilinkarrow-up1708arrow-down113file-textcross-posted to: canada@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1695arrow-down1external-link‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisiswww.theguardian.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 个月前message-square186fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: canada@lemmy.ca
Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them
minus-squareUlvain@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up30·4 个月前Maybe… but there were so many examples of disastrous consequences for introducing a non native species to control a pest (biological pest control), like thr cane toad in Australia, or ferrets in New Zealand, etc…
minus-squarebricklove@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·4 个月前“When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death”
minus-squareqarbone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 个月前So when is the government going to deliver my local squadron of tick-squashing gorillas?
Maybe… but there were so many examples of disastrous consequences for introducing a non native species to control a pest (biological pest control), like thr cane toad in Australia, or ferrets in New Zealand, etc…
“When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death”
So when is the government going to deliver my local squadron of tick-squashing gorillas?