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The amla fruit may be eaten raw or cooked, and in South Asia, the fruit is often pickled with salt, oil, and spices. It is used as an ingredient in dishes including dal (a lentil preparation), and is also made into amle ka murabbah, a sweet dish made by soaking the berries in sugar syrup until they are candied. It is traditionally consumed ...
Herbivory is of extreme ecological importance and prevalence among insects.Perhaps one third (or 500,000) of all described species are herbivores. [4] Herbivorous insects are by far the most important animal pollinators, and constitute significant prey items for predatory animals, as well as acting as major parasites and predators of plants; parasitic species often induce the formation of galls.
Phyllanthus reticulatus [2] is a plant species described Jean Louis Marie Poiret; it is included in the family Phyllanthaceae. [3] [4] This is an Asian species of Phyllanthus (but it was also introduced to Jamaica); it has been confused with P. polyspermus. [5] In Vietnamese its name is phèn đen (sometimes diệp hạ châu mạng).
The scent of the plant is often described as 'foetid' due to the presence of trimethylamine which often gives off a rotting fish smell. [5] Mercurialine is thought to be one of the active principal parts that are responsible for the toxicity of the herb. [7] It is known to induce hemorrhagic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract and kidneys.
A certain type of fish that is a mouthbrooder is called cichlids and many of them are maternal mouthbrooders. The process for this is the female would lay the egg and pick it up in her mouth. Then the males will encourage the female to open her mouth so they can fertilize the eggs while it is in the female's mouth. [27]
The cats live mainly on mice, rabbits and albatross chicks. [8] A later cat introduction was made in 1956. [7] [8] Dogs. These were also introduced to the islands by ships which were hunting seals and whales; [7] there were some feral dogs reported on the islands between 1852 and 1951, but none have been seen since. Equines.
The eggs are pale yellow, about 2 mm (0.08 in) in diameter, and strongly adhesive. During a spawning event, a female can deposit up to 740 eggs in separate clutches of 10 to 300 eggs at a time. [13] The eggs adhere to plants, algal mats, empty mussel shells, sand, or mud at sites that are reached by water only at high spring tides. [13]
The Bermuda petrel and Bermuda skink are highly endangered, and Bermuda cedar, Bermuda palmetto and Bermuda olivewood are all listed as threatened species. Some wild plants, including a spike rush, have disappeared. Introduced plants and animals have had adverse effects on the wildlife of the islands.