Species Connect | WilburMoore | Activity https://speciesconnect.com/members/wilburmoore/activity/ Activity feed for WilburMoore. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:34:52 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=5.1.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 ad2d41b1fc34db2da57303e79ce05984 WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=631247 Tue, 20 May 2025 20:17:02 -0400 Bizarre relationship between the enormous Colombian lesserblack tarantula and the tiny humming frog
photography credits: Emanuele Biggi

]]> 0 429c9f0a5235ca7c6248e26fdd92900e WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=631210 Fri, 09 May 2025 20:18:37 -0400 Phoresy interaction between beetles and pseudoscorpions, perhaps even mutualistic.

via: Piotr Naskrecki

]]> 0 af404ea48437338d886ba0ffc876967d WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=631178 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:11:27 -0400 This research paper explores the factors enabling the coexistence of Asiatic lions and humans in India

photo credits: Shanthanu Bhardwaj

]]> 0 a8e048d3b00100ca2884908d66eafeaa WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=631126 Tue, 08 Apr 2025 21:46:01 -0400 The honey bee mite

via: Ed Ricciuti

]]> 0 e326a9b3afd338515198df83947c9886 WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=631104 Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:28:24 -0400 Amazing cases of interspecies adoption between marine species

via: sea watch foundation

]]> 0 1909476e67c300046b5e2f52f3b679ab WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=631051 Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:36:30 -0400 New paper that shows how cat control has benefited tropicbirds, but rat control may be needed if rat predation increases significantly.

via: Rosalie Willacy, Sarah Legge, Eve McDonald-Madden on British Ecological Society

]]> 0 cf652fc7d731583b5df6f01674e0cfd7 WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=631025 Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:42:48 -0400 Also called the giant golden-crowned flying-fox. Native to the Philippines, it loves eating figs and roosts in mangroves.

credits: @AMNH on X

]]> 0 8fdf0d0e764ed8aa965f072f71d273e1 WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=631013 Wed, 12 Mar 2025 19:25:33 -0400 This article explores a new approach to controlling disease-carrying mosquitoes by targeting their reliance on floral nectar as a primary energy source.

photo credits: Anders Lindström

]]> 0 ca86637340c93371b7b72a1a3b65128b WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=630966 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 22:38:25 -0500 A tiny Argonaut octopus rides atop a siphonophore, taking advantage of its potent nematocyst-laden stinging tentacles.

via: @GugUnderwater on X

]]> 0 ff9031965f410d942a0660fc182e0079 WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=630938 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 03:53:47 -0500 Cute meet-up between a king’s skink and a quokka

credits: @inaturalist on X

]]> 0 c909f10f3974900f42e5aba79f17eda5 WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=630936 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:18:23 -0500 Great video to understand how Red Crown Rot parasites and how to take care of it.

photo credits: @CropNetwork on X

]]> 0 0c8e2d9b18dfada4091a5471c0176a35 WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=630914 Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:41:54 -0500 The brain washer wasp:
The jewel wasp stings a cockroach in a specific part of its brain, turning it into a zombie-like state.

This Wired article explains the entire process

photography credits: RAM GAL

]]> 0 97ad19c3832a550e24c243c1b63a5f70 WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=630911 Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:49:23 -0500 An Anhinga enjoying a nice meal.

]]> 0 8cd4647a6c537a09df1e80468d99adad WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=630904 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:29:53 -0500 Beautiful “light-bulb” fungus infecting a Polyrhachis
via: João Araújo @joaofungo on X

]]> 0 292f7932f5fa524946dfad5a27a70781 WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=630868 Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:53:14 -0500 This paper is a literature review that synthesizes existing studies and knowledge on the epibiotic relationship between the Nile crocodile and the Egyptian plover.

]]> 0 8009003d1d6277bec960f21788ffa5b7 WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=630856 Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:22:24 -0500 Ecological Applications paper: Effects of urbanization on direct and indirect interactions in a tri-trophic system
This paper shows that urbanization can influence direct and indirect trophic interactions through […]

]]> 0 bc7e32bc8dd7901cc01ca2c4010110c6 WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=630836 Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:06:53 -0500 Are wolves the main issue for livestock farmers?
This paper discusses the handful of struggles that farmers have to endure due to their profession

]]> 0 05b3489ca3274b74ed9048a86320040a WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=630805 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:58:47 -0500 This paper explores how bacteria living around plant roots can quickly change from being harmful to beneficial to the plant.
via: National Library of Medicine

]]> 0 9f77dcb52c4c6c4b33d311c5a378931f WilburMoore wrote a new item https://speciesconnect.com/?p=630796 Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:22:40 -0500 The fossa is Madagascar’s top predator. It is the only animal that hunts said island’s lemurs by deftly and rapidly moving through the trees.
These cathemeral predators may hunt together in densely forested […]

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