The voracious cane toad (Bufo marinus), whose native range spans from northern South America to southern Texas, is a poisonous species with few natural predators. It was introduced into Australia in the 1930s from Hawaii to reduce the effects of beetles on sugarcane plantations. Cane toads are...
Fire ants are a genus of nearly 200 species of ants that occur in tropical regions of the world, such as Central and South America, and in some temperate regions, such as North America. The best-known member of the genus, the red imported fire ant, was a
Plantaginaceae, plantain family of flowering plants (order Lamiales), comprising 90 genera and about 1,900 species of herbs. Plantaginaceae is nearly cosmopolitan in distribution, though the majority of species are found in temperate areas. A few are of