Human Overpopulation
EVENT CARD
Play: place it anywhere face up.
Effect:Remove up to four species card with Urban habitat from the game.
hexagonal-pored polypore
Polyporus alveolaris1 POINTS
PLAY: The Hexagonal-pored polypore has a forward move of 1.
FACT: It causes a white rot of dead hardwoods. Found on sticks and decaying logs, its distinguishing features are its yellowish to orange scaly cap.
Eastern Grey Squirrel
Sciurus Carolinensis3 POINTS
PLAY: This Eastern Grey Squirrel has a move of 1
FACT: When an Eastern Grey Squirrel is uneasy, it will twitch its tail.
European Fire Ant
Myrmica rubra3 POINTS
PLAY: A European Fire Ant Card has a play of 3.
FACT: Provincial biologists first confirmed the presence of the European fire ant in BC in 2010. Known populations have nearly doubled since last year, showing up in Burnaby, Vancouver, Richmond, North Vancouver, Maple Ridge, Chilliwack, as well as Victoria and Courtenay.
Lady Bug
Coccinellidae2 POINTS
MOVE: The Lady Bug card has a play of move forward 2 spaces.
FACT: Ladybugs have been in space! In 1999, NASA sent a few ladybugs into space along with aphids to see how the aphids could escape their predators in zero gravity.
Bald Eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus4 POINTS
GENERAL
Adaptation Card5 POINTS
The rate at which an organism is
able to MOVE or TRAVEL