Are there dung beetles in alabama

It seems pretty coarse. Hi Jim, I didn't know that that was hair. I had assumed it was matted grass or weeds. I hadn't seen any dead animals nearby.

If it was soft dung and they rolled it under a shedding plant of some sort, that might be vegetable matter that clung to it. I still think hair is most likely though due to the fairly consistent diameter of the fibers. Flat list - collapsed Flat list - expanded Threaded list - collapsed Threaded list - expanded Date - newest first Date - oldest first 10 comments per page 30 comments per page 50 comments per page 70 comments per page 90 comments per page Select your preferred way to display the comments and click 'Save settings' to activate your changes.

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If you continue to use the site, we'll assume you're okay with this. Accept Read More. This was problematic as they were lethal to anything that tried to eat them, whether it was native Australian predators or pet dogs and cats.

There was worry among conservationists that toad poisoning would eventually lead to the extinction of numerous predatory native species not to mention native toads. They also became a nuisance simply because of their overwhelming abundance. So many were flattened by cars that roads at certain times of the year almost seemed paved in toads. Efforts at control failed, so the Australians responded as Australians will by turning them into practical amusement, inventing their own control strategies.

They invented cane toad golf, cane toad cricket, and cane toad pitching contests the road-flattened toads make passable Frisbees. Cane toads were turned into purses, ash trays, and wall-mounted souvenirs.

Cane toad licking became a cheap high among Australian teenagers - small doses of their toxin gave a similar high to LSD from all reports. Cane toads became the state icon of Queensland. As I say, the environmental effects of immigration are unpredictable and whether they are good or bad depends on who you ask and when you ask. To an Australian cattle rancher, dung beetles saved their industry.

To conservationists, they are an indirect threat to native wildlife because of the explosion of toads they cause. To a cane toad, they are just dinner. Before becoming a research scientist, he had various lives as an English major, a newspaper reporter, a New York City taxi driver, and a Hollywood wild animal trainer.

Living now in Birmingham with his veterinarian wife, 6 dogs, 2 parrots, and a cat, his column posts every other Saturday morning on AL.

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