Posted on 02/22/2013 4:04:20 PM PST by traumer
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam (AP) - Dead mice laced with painkillers are about to rain down on Guam's jungle canopy. They are scientists' prescription for a headache that has caused the tiny U.S. territory misery for more than 60 years: the brown tree snake.
Most of Guam's native bird species are extinct because of the snake, which reached the island's thick jungles by hitching rides from the South Pacific on U.S. military ships shortly after World War II. There may be 2 million of the reptiles on Guam now, decimating wildlife, biting residents and even knocking out electricity by slithering onto power lines.
More than 3,000 miles away, environmental officials in Hawaii have long feared a similar invasion - which in their case likely would be a "snakes on a plane" scenario. That would cost the state many vulnerable species and billions of dollars, but the risk will fall if Guam's air-drop strategy succeeds.
"We are taking this to a new phase," said Daniel Vice, assistant state director of U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services in Hawaii, Guam, and the Pacific Islands. "There really is no other place in the world with a snake problem like Guam."
Brown tree snakes are generally a few feet (1 meter) long but can grow to be more than 10 feet (3 meters) in length. Most of Guam's native birds were defenseless against the nocturnal, tree-based predators, and within a few decades of the reptile's arrival, nearly all of them were wiped out.
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I wish there was something we could drop on the ‘RAT “snakes” here in this country to get rid of them.
Well, unless you routinely eat dead mice, nothing...
These are the kinds of morons who ardently believe in anthropogenic climate change.
>> Dead mice laced with painkillers are about to rain down on Guam’s jungle canopy.<<
The college memories just flood in!
That stops, right after I finish this basket of 'em.
/johnny
“Where does Soros live?”
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Budapest.....Better to dump toxic chitterlings on DC.
Good idea....
Kill the wabbit
Kill the wabbit
Kill the WABBIT
Kill the wabbIT
Well, let’s hope this works in controlling the brown snakes, because nothing else has. From what I’ve read, they’ve tried hunting/capturing, poison gas, even mass electrocution, and nothing has stemmed the tide. Those damn things are just everywhere.
Of course, *I* say we take off and nuke the site from orbit.
It’s the only way to be sure.
Toxic? Does Richard Gere know about this?
Next Headline :
"Million Junkies head to Guam's jungles in search of Mickey Mouse."
In the movie “Wanted” the guy used a garbage truck full of rats with time bombs.
Uh...yum!
Oops:
Only acetaminophen!
Sometimes nothing else just hits the spot...
i got a feeling that more than the intended target will eat them and maybe before the snakes
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