13 years, 5 months ago-
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Let’s study while play 😉
We know that it is hard to remember scientific name (binomial nomenclature), so c’mon let’s play with it. Write a real and available scientific name you can remember (can be plants, animals, microbes) and the common name for it, but not that easy, you must start your name after the last character of the previous post… Understood? Confused? Aarrggh, I know I am bad at making sentences 🙁 😆 Well, see the example:
#1 post: Hippocampus erectu[b]s[/b] = Lined seahorse; northern seahorse (U.S.A.)
#2 post: Sagittaria latifoli[b]a[/b] = Broadleaf Arrowhead, Wapato
#3 post: Aspergillus fumigatu[b]s[/b] =
etc.
Don’t forget to write the name in proper way as Carollus Linnaeus told 😉 If you have figure for your species, it would be nice 🙂
Ok, I start with this one: Panax ginsen[b]g[/b] = Korean ginseng
(It seems like a sexy hairy man, isn’t it? :lol:) -
Iguana iguana
The green iguana is a reptile found throughout Central and South America.
While it is not generally an endangered animal in some places, like Belize, it is because of hunting. Large females are the favorite individuals to harvest. Unfortunately, these same individuals are critical to the reproductive success of the species. As a food source, the green iguana is also known as the "Bamboo Chicken".http://www.thewildones.org/Animals/iguana.html
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Icerya purchasi Maskell – Cottony cushion scale
This insect is a true bug in the Family Margarodidae. It is native to Australia where acacia plants serve as its host. Around 1870 it was accidentally introduced to California on imported acacia plants. The insect successfully colonized its new land and discovered a new host plant, citrus. The insect caused huge damage to the citrus plants in California which resulted in great economic damage.
Riley, the Federal Entomologist at the time, sent some folks over to Australia to look for natural enemies of the scale insect. They found, brought back and released a ladybug (Rhodalia cardinalis) and a parasitic fly (Cryptochaetum iceryae). The effort was a great success and is considered the first scientifically driven and institutionally backed biological control effort.
Unfortunately, some of the citrus growers in California thought the success was so magnificent that they packed up some ladybugs on citrus leaves and mailed them to Florida, where there was no scale present. However, when growers opened the shipment of ladybugs in Florida, scale was released with them and, since then, cottony cushion scale has been present in Florida.
Cottony cushion scale is now widespread throughout the world and can be found pretty much where ever citrus is growing.
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Indri indriThe indri is a large, distinctive lemur with a very short tail. Its pelage is very dense and the coloration a mixture of black and white. There is considerable variation in the mixture of black and white throughout the species’ range. The indri has a head and body length of more than 60 cm (24") and a tail length of only about 5 cm (about 2"). It weighs 6 – 7.5 kg (13 – 17 lb).
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