Species Connect | navi | Activity https://speciesconnect.com/members/navi/activity/ Activity feed for navi. Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:47:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=5.1.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 2a3c98c4ef5002bd16f38bf56b87a6a1 navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=625106 Sun, 13 Nov 2022 15:42:13 -0500 Interspecies teamwork: Evidence of interspecific foraging associations between Cape foxes and striped polecats in the southern Kalahari

]]> 0 7a26250fd8e402adb04dcb862dcefff2 navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=625003 Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:03:03 -0400 Researchers have gone bananas over this fruit’s complex ancestry
Genomic analyses suggest three mysterious ancestors contributed DNA to the modern-day banana

]]> 0 e272ecd40b739260c6841a60f3a040a8 navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624848 Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:56:04 -0400 Great video of An ocelot trying to eat a sloth in Tiputini Biological Station , Ecuador Amazonian region

]]> 0 8797d8ea645b58bba16459261a6aa024 navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624738 Thu, 01 Sep 2022 20:49:32 -0400 Posted on twitter by KhanLab @FruitDiseases : Nectria twig blight caused by the fungus Nectria cinnabarina on Empire #Apples

]]> 0 368dd582a93451f1853012a2b823cfe8 navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624402 Sat, 20 Aug 2022 14:56:04 -0400 Ants as pest control. This paper shows that services provided by ants to crops outweigh the disservices. Ants decrease the abundance of non-honeydew-producing pests, decrease plant damage and increase crop yield, […]

]]> 0 49bb1d86e929e32b729d5c0e09f30854 navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624247 Sat, 21 May 2022 14:54:37 -0400 Lime felt gall mites on small-leaved lime.
Shared in TW by Helen Pennington @hgpennington

]]> 0 965cbcd64d79648eba614c48c1448182 navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624221 Wed, 18 May 2022 16:08:16 -0400 WOW! Pollination and seed dispersal of Melocactus ernestii Vaupel subsp. ernestii (Cactaceae) by lizards: an example of double mutualism.

]]> 0 1bc1176d8829986206900b5138ce2cd7 navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624132 Wed, 04 May 2022 19:42:48 -0400 Frog-Spider mutualism or commensalism? Frogs seem to benefit from living with the spider by receiving protection. On the other hand, microhylids frogs specialize on eating ants that eat the eggs of the spider. […]

]]> 0 f5d4fd95f7a6dfe499cf62b860df4cae navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=624013 Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:30:20 -0400 Ash dieback is just the start of killer plagues threatening Britain’s trees by George Monbiot.
The author proposes an import ban of all live plants except those grown from tissue cultures, in sterile conditions t […]

]]> 0 4bda14bcee9ac502a2b71ce05d4a7f4b navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623959 Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:39:01 -0400 Shared in TW by DELAFORESTA @DELAFORESTA : El descorche de los alcornoques, oficio milenario de buen hacer #corcho #descorche #alcornoque . Cork harvesting, a millennial tradition.

]]> 0 dd9cc34b2ce4f7d18223573c547afcf1 navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623862 Wed, 30 Mar 2022 21:12:36 -0400 Invasive crazy ants are being annihilated by murder fungus. The pathogen is driving populations of invading ants to extinction. João Araújo @joaofungo , Mycology Curator/Researcher @NYBG points out that it is s […]

]]> 0 2e168ea6450ac72fa9078e3b4e4d7d0b navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623773 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:11:28 -0400 From TW Martin Harvey @kitenet : A very tiny female Lobe-spurred Furrow Bee (Lasioglossum pauxillum) in a Lesser Celandine flower (plus the back end of what I think must be a pollen beetle)

]]> 0 8f573928e221bef7c2f8e63644e22372 navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623654 Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:07:58 -0500 Ed Sikora @alabamaED : Southern blight on tomato. The pathogen attacks over 500 broad leaf plants.A black lesion forms on stem at soil line leading to girdling & wilting of plant. White mycelium develops & soon is […]

]]> 0 075c5a3521d1826d29fe87246a56ad36 navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623378 Fri, 21 Jan 2022 19:34:03 -0500 In this mutualism, the aphids give ants honeydew as food to obtain protection from predators. It seems that aphids manipulate ants to receive stronger protection (via increased aggression) through the dopamine […]

]]> 0 3e993747b4b129cf2b3f22782f8225cf navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623282 Wed, 12 Jan 2022 19:50:06 -0500 Gambian pouched rats are trained to detect land mines. Magawa, a rat who sniffed out over 100 land mines and other explosives in Cambodia over a yearslong career, has died.

]]> 0 4221ab9355a579938b590629fef6f8ca navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623225 Sat, 08 Jan 2022 16:27:02 -0500 Differential mosquito attraction to humans is associated with skin-derived carboxylic acid levels. Here they tested mosquito attraction to skin odor collected from human subjects . They discovered that highly […]

]]> 0 ee36228291dfb99b9b984e1b1d1582da navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623210 Thu, 06 Jan 2022 15:23:27 -0500 Bee lice (Braulidae) are small parasitic flies, which are adapted to live on their bee host. The attachment system of B. coeca provides a secure grip on the fine setae of the bee. This is crucial for the parasite […]

]]> 0 e7a2bd6046f773dfcf2fe2c53ec84aa3 navi wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=623179 Sat, 01 Jan 2022 14:05:32 -0500 Spanish farmers fight forest fires with agroforestry (and many sheep).
During the summer, Galicia is a dry, fire prone region of northwestern Spain. A form of agroforestry where livestock are grazed among trees […]

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