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  Rosemary Beetle

  Chrysolina americana

  

  

  

  Animalia,Arthropoda,Insecta

  

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  • Chrysolina americana has a MOVE of 2.

  
  

  • Chrysolina americana was first discovered in the United Kingdom in 1994.

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  Image by Claudia Hahn heliocyan.com/

  Ombrosoparacloucycle www.flickr.com/photos/30063276@N02/

  Chrysolina americana is a type of beetle native to Southern Europe, despite the species name americana. Commonly known as the ‘Rosemary Beetle’ it feeds on rosemary and lavender. This species was first discovered living outdoors in the United Kingdom in 1994. By 2002 it had become widespread in the London area, and spreading rapidly throughout. Although it is susceptible to some pesticides, [...]

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  Domestic Goat

  Capra aegagrus hircus

  

  

  

  Animalia,Chordata,Mammalia

  

  3 POINTS

  
  

  • Capra aegagrus hircus has a MOVE of 2

  
  

  • There are over three hundred distinct breeds of domesticated goats worldwide.

  
  

   

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  Image by latyshoffa latyshoffa.deviantart.com/

  Fir0002 www.flagstaffotos.com.au/gallery23/main.php

  The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep as both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over three hundred distinct breeds of goat.[1] Female goats are referred to as does or nannies, intact males as bucks [...]

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  Aleppo Pine

  Pinus halepensis

  

  

  

  Plantae,Pinophyta,Pinopsida

  

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  • Pinus halepensis has a SPREAD of 2

  
  

  • Pinus halepensis is considered an invasive species in South Africa and Southern Australia.

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  Image by Christina kurodaiya.deviantart.com/

  akk_rus www.flickr.com/people/akras/

  Pinus halepensis, commonly known as the Aleppo Pine, is a pine native to the Mediterranean region. Their range extends from Morocco and Spain north to southern France, Italy and Croatia, and east to Greece and northern Tunisia, and Libya, with an outlying population (from which it was first described) in Syria, Lebanon, southern Turkey, Jordan, [...]

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  Large Earth Bumblebee

  Bombus terrestris

  

  

  

  Animalia,Arthropoda,Insecta

  

  4 POINTS

  
  

  • Bombus terrestris has a MOVE of 2.

  
  

  • Bombus terrestris can find its nest from as far as 13 kilometres away!

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  Image by Erin English breakbot.deviantart.com/

  Ferran Pestaña www.flickr.com/photos/ferranp/

  Bombus terrestris, the buff-tailed bumblebee or large earth bumblebee is one of the most numerous bumblebee species in Europe. The queen is 2–2.7 cm long, while the workers are 1½–2 cm. The latter are characterized by their white-ended abdomens and look (apart from their yellowish bands being darker in direct comparison) just like those of the white-tailed bumblebee, B. lucorum, a close [...]

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  Tennessee Warbler

  Oreothlypis peregrina

  

  

  

  Animalia,Chordata,Aves

  

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  • Oreothlypis peregrina has a FLIGHT of 2.

  
  

  • Despite its common name, Oreothlypis peregrina neither breeds nor over-winters in the state of Tennessee.

  
  

  
  

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  Image by Jacqueline Rae jacquelinerae.deviantart.com/

  Jerry Oldenettel www.flickr.com/photos/7457894@N04

  The Tennessee Warbler, Oreothlypis peregrina, is a New World warbler. It breeds in northern North America across Canada and the northern USA. It ismigratory, wintering in southern Central America and northern Colombia and Venezuela, with a few stragglers going as far south as Ecuador. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe. This bird was named from a specimen collected in Tennessee where it may appear [...]

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  Red Paper Wasp

  Polistes annularis

  

  

  

  Animalia,Arthropoda,Insecta

  

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  • Polistes annularis has a MOVE of 2

  
  

  • Polistes annularis forms its papery nests in trees, shrubs and some buildings.

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  Image by Jacqueline Rae jacquelinerae.deviantart.com/

  Kittenwants www.flickr.com/people/kittenwants/

  Paper wasps are 3⁄4 to 1 inch (1.9 to 2.5 cm)-long wasps that gather fibers from dead wood and plant stems, which they mix with saliva, and use to construct water-resistant nests made of gray or brown papery material. Paper wasps are also sometimes called umbrella wasps, due to the distinctive design of their nests[1] [...]

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