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Insect Invasion: Creepy Crawlies Beneath our Feet?
New and unusual insects are making their way over to the UK and surviving in our increasingly mild climate.
Tarantulas and other creepy crawlies that might usually have died after arriving here on consignments of fruit are now coping with our climate and making their home here.
Insects play an important part in our ecosystem by pollinating much of our countryside and providing an essential food source for birds and mammals. But conservationists are worried that the new and more deadly foreign species will soon start to out-compete our existing native species.
These insects consist of :
The Wasp Spider
The Lily Beetle
The Longhorn Beetle
The Tarantula
The Black-Widow Spider (Deadly)
The Harlequin Ladybird
The Ladybird Spider
Tell everyone you know!
http://environment.uk.msn.com/wildlife/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=10174561
When the first serious incident hits the news, maybe I might (underlined) start getting worried. But there are more serious examples of invasive species.
Non-native species that become invasive are considered the second greatest threat to wildlife worldwide after habitat destruction. Their impacts can be far reaching – they have adverse impacts on native wildlife by predation, competition and spread of disease.
“They can threaten economic interests such as agriculture, forestry, fisheries and development. Controlling the release of invasive non-native species into the wild is a key element of conserving our native wildlife.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/08/eanative108.xml
The examples you quoted are a small threat compared to say Japanese knotweed, or Water Hyacinth or Rhodadendron.
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