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#5 Reasons To Celebrate Colobus Daythe colobi are a group of Old world monkeys (meaning from Africa
Bdelloid rotifers can be found in most freshwater ponds measure a few tenths of a millimeter long contain only about 1000 cells
There's also the nematode worm if you're looking to find bizarre ways of having sex (at least
however as worms tend to be an issue (as they are for most animal species including humans over most of the planet).
Common in Africa Asia and Latin america adult Taenia solium tapeworms can live inside the human intestinal tract producing eggs that its human host then expels fecally.
Someone contaminates food with tapeworm eggs bound for a pig's stomach. The tapeworm eggs hatch but instead of developing into an adult tapeworm in the intestines they burrow into the bloodstream as would normally occur in a pig.
In a human they often end up in the brain forming cysts that cause a disease called neurocysticercosis.
The threadlike Loa loa is an eye worm but when it comes to parasites crawling around in your body that's too close to the brain for comfort.
Having a worm crawling around in your body can cause itching (and what one medical dictionary calls a creeping sensation in the tissues) inflammation damage to the nervous system and the retina.
Probably the most frightening is the M. Bop more commonly known as Hanson's Ear Worm.
and an MRI showed a 7mm ball (nest of worms) by then (after months of suffering) still they refused a parasitic killer and
(I always knew there was probably a liver fluke there both these organs were attacked with about 8 bites in a row durring my horrible ordeal with the 2006-2008 parasite problem.
but in truth it was called a nest of worms! Why do doctors refuse to believe there is a thing called microorganisms and parasites (germs worms fungus bacteria yeast insects etc.
and that we humans are perfect hosts (warm moist dark wealthy food source soft smelly etc.?
and salsa (toasted cricket corn flour) and a cricket moon pie with mill worm filling.
and look at the worms on the roads. The worms end right at the edge of the farmers fields.
Thus no new dirt is made from leaves etc. or aireation (Sorry about the spelling. of our fields.
and we need to find a way to keep the worms in the fields before we can't raise crops any more.
Worms help (breakdown of large material to increase surface area and aereation) but it is bacteria that do the job of turning life into soil.
Those pesticides are bad for the worms frogs and most everything else but things still rot back into soil
Oak is right soil is made irregardless of the presents of worms. I haven't done enough research
Oak is right soil is made irregardless of the presents of worms. I haven't done enough research
As a matter of fact the only thing I've seen farmers do as far as interacting with worms is farm them to get MORE of them...
For all that lived there it was WORMWOOD Rev 8: 11 the wood became full of worms and the rivers water no longer sweet and undrinkable.
applied leeches (their most scientifically based bit of medicine; administered arsenic. Declared every last grain of any resource theirs to consume until depletion.
applied leeches (their most scientifically based bit of medicine; administered arsenic. Declared every last grain of any resource theirs to consume until depletion.
They're sold commercially as Phoenix Worms. Chickens love'em! And you can grown them on kitchen scraps.
While the four and a half page paper is obviously short on specifics it initially describes expanded studies of the brains of the worm C. elegans the fruit fly Drosophila
For all that lived there it was WORMWOOD Rev 8: 11 the wood became full of worms and the rivers water no longer sweet and undrinkable.
#How Leeches Can Track down The World's Rarest Animalsmany animals are still almost complete mysteries to science.
Tom Gilbert a geneticist at the University of Copenhagen has found that leeches are a great way to track down rare creatures.
He was inspired after a colleague monitoring rare tapirs in Malaysia was bitten by a terrestrial leech (a common annoyance in tropical rainforests)
and wondered whether the blood inside it could be used for DNA analysis. Gilbert tested the idea by feeding 40 leeches goat blood.
In 2010 Gilbert tried the method on 25 leeches that had been collected in Vietnam. We kind of hit the jackpot he says.
Twenty-one leeches contained DNA from mammals two of which were extremely rare. Although there was no evidence of the saola Gilbert did find DNA from the Annamite striped rabbit.
Gilbert is now analyzing the recent meals of leeches collected in countries including Indonesia Malaysia and Madagascar.
Does anyone know which country apart from africa consumes the most Mopane Worms (an old african staple) it is now a delicac c
Since tunneling for Intake No. 3 began in 2012 the borer has averaged just 35 feet per day in atmospheric mode.
That means a skull which rules out whole taxonomies of worms slugs and other potential invertebrates.
I know is going to lay the eggs that make the worms that eat up my cabbages.
A new invasive plant parasitic nematode in Europefollowing its recent synonymisation with Meloidogyne ulmi a species known to parasitize elm trees in Europe it has become clear that M. mali has been in The netherlands for more than fifty years.
Many studies later on associated this nematode species with several plant species including Elms. In Europe however it was for years only known to parasitize Elms.
which were found to be hosts to this nematode species. The authors compounded a list of about 44 different plant species currently recognized as host to M. mali.
It is highly probable that this root-knot nematode has even a wider host range than
They turn over more soil than earthworms. But they're also some of the most overlooked he says.
Along with the sea fan are three new species of worm eels three colorful gobies three nudibanchs two snappers two now-extinct species of sand dollars corals barnacles and two
#Controlling parasitic worms with genetic selectionhelminths are gastrointestinal parasitic worms that have become a major concern and source of economic loss for sheep producers around the world.
Over time these drugs are less effective as helminths become resistant to the drugs. Therefore there is pressure on the industry to find alternate strategies.
Certain breeds of sheep are more immune to helminths than the conventional breeds used in Canada
and ultimately limit production losses attributed to helminth infection. A key advantage to applying genetic selection rather than chemicals to get rid of the worms is that it is permanent
and it could help reduce the potential risk of chemical residues in products made for human consumption.
With today's developments in genomic selection breeding sheep for helminth resistance can be achieved efficiently without adversely affecting other economically important traits explained Niel Karrow lead author of the paper a researcher at the Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock at the University of Guelph.
We believe that breeding for helminth resistance when combined with good biosecurity and pasture management practises will greatly help to control against production losses due to gastrointestinal parasites.
and $35 million in the northeastern United states. According to Tooker to protect their crops from ECB many farmers have grown a genetically modified type of corn that expresses insecticidal toxins that kill the worms.
#Emerald ash borer may have met its matchwoodpeckers find emerald ash borers a handy food source and may slow the spread of this noxious pest even ultimately controlling it suggest researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Since the emerald ash borer was first found feeding on trees in southeastern Michigan in 2002 this Asian invader has been responsible for the death of 30 million trees in the northeastern U s. and Canada.
In Chicago where the emerald ash borer is already destroying trees 17 percent of the street trees are ash--85000 trees with an estimated 300000 more ash trees on private property.
and nuthatches were feeding on the emerald ash borer. They hoped that unlike other exotic invasive species which run amok in new regions because of the lack of predators to keep them in check the emerald ash borer might meet its match in native predators--bark foraging birds like the woodpecker and nuthatch.
This kind of bio-control would be as or perhaps more efficient than other methods to slow the spread of this pest said Flower.
and other fauna and the introduction of an ash borer predator from its native range in Asia might bring with it a host of new problems he said.
the woodpeckers alter their behavior in a way that allows them to find emerald ash borers more efficiently
When emerald ash borer larvae emerge from eggs laid on the tree they burrow in
and painted all the holes they found in the bark of each tree--a different color each for large round woodpecker holes for the characteristic crescent-shaped holes mature emerald ash borers
and after the bark was stripped the students could identify woodpecker holes that penetrated into emerald ash borer galleries
Their results proved that woodpeckers were indeed choosing to prey on emerald ash borers--eating 85 percent of the emerald ash borer in an infested tree.
In a related study researchers at Cornell tracked the movement of emerald ash borer from Detroit
and the white-breasted nuthatch the important bark foraging birds in this region increased as the emerald ash borer increased.
and the nuthatch to have an impact on the population of the emerald ash borer said Whelan.
Very little is known about emerald ash borer habits in its native environment its natural predators
The research suggests that the woodpeckers are likely slowing the spread of emerald ash borer.
#No fluke as parasites nuked with innovative toolkittyndall National Institute Ireland has announced the development of a new diagnostic toolkit--Flukeless--to help in the fight against liver fluke in cattle and sheep.
and immunity and DNA testing to tackle the common liver fluke parasite--a scourge that causes annual losses of around. 5billion to the livestock and food industries worldwide.
At a time when some EU member states (including Ireland) are reporting a 12-fold increase in the prevalence of liver fluke infection over recent years it is crucial to find innovative new ways to maintain animal health
of root tissue that has been attacked by the parasitic nematode Radopholus similis. This local accumulation is crucial for the plant's resistance to this pest organism.
The toxin is stored in lipid droplets in the body of the nematode and the parasite finally dies.
and vitamins B and C. Apart from fungi and insects the parasitic nematode Radopholus similis is considered a major banana pest.
Research and Infection Biology and the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology in Jena have taken now a closer look at the plant-nematode interactions in the context of resistance versus susceptibility.
The concentration of the most active compound anigorufone however was much higher in the immediate vicinity of lesions on the roots of resistant bananas in comparison to infected root tissues of the nematode susceptible banana plants.
The production of the toxin alone is not responsible for the banana plant's resistance to nematodes.
which is particularly high at the precise location of the nematode attack which makes the difference
and other substances was tested on living nematodes. It turned out that it was in fact anigorufone which was most toxic to the pest organism.
and finally killed the nematode. Why these complex lipid droplets are formed and why the nematodes cannot metabolize
or excrete the toxin still needs to be clarified. However it is likely that the growing lipid droplets displace the inner organs of the nematode causing an eventual metabolic dysfunction.
The scientists will now try to find out how resistant banana plants biosynthesize and translocate the defense compounds on a molecular level.
Such insights will provide important clues for the development of banana varieties which are resistant to the nematodes.
Because their diets were augmented with grubs worms and grass the flavor of their meat is distinctly flavorful
#Early bird catches the worm--for dinnerbirds such as great and blue tits scout for food in the morning
#Earthworms invade New Englandbeavers reshape landscapes with their dams. Wolves control elk populations. Sea otters protect kelp forests by eating sea urchins.
Put earthworms on the list. Kudzu vines grow madly covering power lines. Zebra mussels muscle-out native mussels in Lake Champlain.
Put earthworms on that list too. None of the earthworms in New england's forests are native.
There are sixteen earthworm species reported in Vermont --and they're all exotic; fourteen are European
and two are Asian. And many of these worms are invaders spreading silently underground. Perhaps ten or eleven are invasive says Josef Gorres a professor at the University of Vermont.
He's an earthwormologist says Don Ross with a wry smile. But the research project Ross is leading is no joke.
Also a professor at UVM Ross a soil chemist wants to better understand the effects of all these earthworms on the soils of New england's Northern Forest.
He and Gorres know the worms are upsetting forest ecosystems --and they also think the worms have a role to play in global climate change.
But what that role is--good guy or villain? --they're not sure. Earthworm excretawhich is why on a gentle hillside in the town forest of Hinesburg Vt.
Ross Gorres three other scientists and five students dig a hole in the ground. Surrounding them a stand of youngish trees--paper birch sugar maple white ash--forms a pleasing green glow.
And that's where the earthworms come in. Graduate student Meghan Knowles holds up a clump of soil.
Most of this is earthworm poop because this is such a highly invaded site she says. Most of this soil has been processed by earthworms.
Then she teases apart the clump. We're sifting through the litter to try to find earthworms
and then we're going to look for middens--mounds--that are an indication of deep burrowing species she says.
In a forest like this without worms there would first be a duff layer which is a spongy bouncy layer above the deeper mineral soils
The worms have eaten literally it. Carbon on balancethis efficient decomposition is why home gardeners love earthworms:
they break down organic matter releasing nutrients. But in a New england forest they're not so benign
The worms also release carbon dioxide as they eat adding to the forest's carbon emissions.
It might seem that earthworms are all villain in the drama that is the global carbon cycle.
When the earthworms first invade they change things dramatically and there is a big carbon loss
As these earthworms move through the soil they're ingesting mineral particles along with organic particles glomming them together inside their digestive track.
So the question is Gorres asks over the long run do earthworms create a negative balance or positive balance on carbon?
Earthworms create these stable aggregate structures says Knowles who is doing a lot of the digging and lab work to get to the bottom of this question.
And so I'm trying to quantitatively distinguish between what earthworms are creating and what is already here to figure out
if earthworms are increasing that physical protection of carbon. Land use historyrecent studies in the Northern Forest have shown that land use changes--like agricultural abandonment
And how much does the current earthworm invasion threaten these gains? It's hard to say.
The presumption is that the first agricultural immigrants brought earthworms with them says historical ecologist Charlie Cogbill one of the scientists on this project
but we don't know where the baseline is without worms. In any case both Cogbill and Don Ross say land use history had a huge effect on the current status of the forest
and also probably on whether an area has earthworms today. The eighteen plots the team is studying intensively have widely varying amounts of belowground carbon
--and preliminary data show about half of them appear to have earthworms in them. That variability likely reflects differing land use histories.
Many of the forests here developed in the presence of earthworms when ag land was abandoned Gorres says.
and did not have any earthworms. There are many variables of soil type specific type and intensity of land use practice microclimate and others that make each site different.
In Vermont and New england the earthworm distribution is very patchy says Gorres. In some places earthworms are abundant.
Then step three meters in another direction and there is a complete forest floor and no earthworms.
Why is that? Nobody has really been able to answer that. This project may not be able to answer that question
either but it does seek to broadly survey the extent of the worm invasion across Vermont
--and to better understand how the interaction between earthworm activity and land use history influences the amount of carbon in the soil.
They may also have an effect on the likelihood of earthworm invasion. Human-generated carbon
I've been brought in to this earthworm project to try to figure out: is there a carbon market connection?
of an invasive earthworm. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Vermont.
Famous weevils moths and borer beetles live in a very comfortable environment when in the middle of a silo or warehouse fill with grains.
Vitamin B3--also known as niacin--and its metabolite nicotinamide in the worms'diet caused them to live for about one tenth longer than usual.
This worm which is merely one millimetre in length can be maintained easily and has a lifespan of only a month making it the ideal model organism for ageing research.
The latest finding from these researchers suggests that the birds are returning the favor to farmers by eating an aggressive coffee bean pest the borer beetle thereby improving coffee bean yields by hundreds of dollars per hectare.
The borer beetle arrived in the past few years and Karp's group began to investigate
Crop pests include fungi bacteria viruses insects nematodes viroids and oomycetes. The diversity of crop pests continues to expand
#Parasitic worm genome uncovers potential drug targetsresearchers have identified five enzymes that are essential to the survival of a parasitic worm that infects livestock worldwide
or the barber pole worm a well-studied parasitic worm that resides in the gut of sheep and other livestock globally.
This genome could provide a comprehensive understanding of how treatments against parasitic worms work and point to further new treatments and vaccines.
The Barber pole worm or H. contortus is part of a family of gastrointestinal worms that are endemic on 100%of farms
H. contortus has become resistant to all major treatments against parasitic worms so its genome is a good model to understand how drug resistance develops in this complex group of closely related parasites
and other worms of this type acquire resistance to a wide range of anthelmintics#the drugs used to treat worm infections#says Dr James Cotton senior author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.#
because both people and animals are reliant on so few treatments against parasitic worms.##The team sequenced the genome of a strain of H contortus that was susceptible to all major classes of drugs against parasitic worms.
By comparing this sequence with that of worms that have acquired drug resistance the researchers expect to reveal a wealth of information about how
and other types of parasitic worms#says Professor Neil Sargison author from the University of Edinburgh Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies.#
and develop new drugs against parasitic worms to address this issue.##To generate a rich source of potential vaccine
one against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and another against another type of worm. To discover these targets the team determined
or off in the cells and tissues of H. contortus to reveal new insights into the worm s lifecycle.
The result is the most extensive dataset of its kind for any gastrointestinal worm and is expected to provide a valuable resource for future investigations.
#oenot only is this worm closely related to many other parasites of livestock it is also similar to some species of worms in humans.#
#oerevealing new drug targets against H. contortus could provide much-needed new treatment opportunities against parasitic worms in both animals and humans.
or disabled by the disease a parasitic-worm infection spread by mosquitoes. Our study quantifies the effect of the most widely implemented vector control measure--insecticide-treated bed nets
#Increase in woodpecker populations linked to feasting on emerald ash borerthe scourge of forests the emerald ash borer
The four species of birds considered in the study Effects of the emerald ash borer invasion on four species of birds included three woodpeckers that are known to forage on EAB-infested ash trees
The emerald ash borer has been massively destructive because most North american ash trees have little or no defense against it Liebhold said.
Both for forests and urban trees the emerald ash borer has been devastating said Michael T. Rains Director of the U s. Forest Service's Northern Research Station and Director of the Forest Products Laboratory.
#Natural pest control protein effective against hookworm: A billion could benefita benign crystal protein produced naturally by bacteria
and used as an organic pesticide could be a safe inexpensive treatment for parasitic worms in humans
Hookworms and other intestinal parasites known as helminths infect more than 1 billion people in poverty-stricken tropical nations sucking the vitality from the body and leaving hundreds of millions of children physically and mentally stunted.
In earlier research Aroian and his collaborators described a protein Cry5b that can kill intestinal nematode parasites--such as human hookworms--in infected test animals (hamsters.
In the current research researchers showed that a small dose of Cry5b expressed in this bacterium can achieve a 93 percent elimination of hookworm parasites from infected hamsters.
However growing oat and pea in the same sample caused a huge shift towards protozoa and nematode worms.
The lack of large differences in P loss from these two management practices may in part be explained by something unexpected--earthworms.
and you increase earthworm populations. But how are earthworms affecting transport of P? Earthworms can ingest
and redistribute soil and they enhance soil structure creating more stable aggregates and allowing water to move more rapidly into the soil.
It is also possible that earthworm activity mixes up soil moving surface-applied P deeper into the soil and away from potential runoff.
So which management practice is best for farmers? No-till practices didn't lead to increased dissolved P runoff in this study
and hunts soft-bodied prey including earthworms and amphibian eggs in addition to snails and slugs. This harmless snake defends itself by mimicking the alternating dark and light rings of venomous coral snakes.
and small invertebrates such as insect larvae worms and snails when fruits are said scarce Dr. Keuroghlian.
if we did not have earthworms. In seagrass systems tiny grazers promote healthy seagrasses by ensuring algae is consumed quickly rather than overgrowing the seagrass.
#Chemical trickery explored to help contain potato pestthe pale cyst nematode Globodera pallida is one bad roundworm.
There the chemicals stimulate G. pallida eggs to hatch Normally this helps ensure the survival of emerging juvenile nematodes.
but don't support the nematode's reproduction. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by United states Department of agriculture-Research Education and Economics.
#Decoys could blunt spread of ash-killing beetlesas the emerald ash borer ravages North american ash trees threatening the trees'very survival a team of entomologists
Emerald ash borers (EABS) a type of beetle native to Asia first appeared in the U s. about 20 years ago.
As their name implies emerald ash borers are iridescent green. The beetles don't carry disease
could Lakhtakia's technique visually replicate the unique female borer to create a better lure?
The researchers were able to create a color similar to the emerald ash borer's green wings by layering different types of polymer.
and maintain and more successful at trapping males than dead female borers. The purpose of the decoys is to trap the males
so that populations of emerald ash borers can be detected in new locations quickly paving the way for efficient use of other control methods according to the researchers.
Astonishing ten new species of semiaquatic freshwater earthworms revealedthe semiaquatic earthworms in the genus Glyphidrilus are somewhat unfamiliar species that live between the terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems of rivers streams canals
Among the interesting characteristics of these worms is rounded a body tip while the end is shaped square.
This is probably an evolutionary adjustments that ensures oxygen transport to the deeper surface of the worms
Among the natural habitats of these worms are the rice fields in Thailand which serve as a reservoir and breeding ground for the animals.
The worms turn out to play an important role in the development of rice farming being a facilitator in the decomposition of organic matter to be a natural fertilizer as well as improving the soil properties for better rice root system.
which prove to be lethal to the worms. The increased use of pesticides in agriculture puts these species in danger.
The worms will survive in areas using chemical fertilizers but not those using chemical pesticides.
However the worms did well in areas of organic farming and so are likely to be sensitive to modern agrochemical contamination of the environment.
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