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Canada geese (Photo by John Sauro)
Rose, Maymont, SK (Photo by Don Dabbs)
Victorin’s water-hemlock (photo by Frederic Coursol)
Purple loosestrife (Photo by Liz West, Wikimedia Commons)
The cough drop-sized parasite Griffen's isopod, native to Asia and Russia, has decimated mud shrimp populations along the West Coast. The parasite on the right is a female with the much smaller male attached. (Florida Museum photo by Amanda Bemis and Gustav Paulay)
September 29, 2020
By Josh Silberg and Natalie van Hoose Researchers have identified an invasive, blood-sucking parasite on mud shrimp in the waters of British Columbia’s Calvert Island. The discovery represents the northernmost record of the parasite on the... Continue Reading »
