#invasive species

Stories tagged “invasive species” in the Weird Science History archive — 4 stories connected by this topic.

• The Astronomer Whose Escaped Caterpillars Are Still Eating America
• The Mongooses Hired to Hunt Rats — Who Worked the Day Shift
• The Starlings America Blamed on Shakespeare — and the One Sentence That Invented the Story
• The Toad Australia Released to Fight a Pest — and Turned Into a Bigger One

Related topics: #biological control #1880s #acclimatization #astronomical art #Australia #biology #bufotoxin #cane toads