Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The lantadenes are particularly well known for their toxicity to livestock, primarily for causing hepatotoxicity, or damage to the liver. A vast collection of symptoms have been observed in cattle, sheep, and other livestock including "weakness, severe gastroenteritis, anorexia, weight loss, jaundice, conjunctivitis, corneal opacity and blindness, ulceration of tongue, gums, and buccal mucous ...
Lantana camara is known to be toxic to livestock such as cattle, sheep, horses, dogs and goats. [47] [48] The active substances causing toxicity in grazing animals are pentacyclic triterpenoids called Lantadenes, which result in liver damage and photosensitivity. [49]
Octotoma scabripennis, known as the lantana leafminer and lantana leaf beetle, is a species of beetle in the family Chrysomelidae, originally from Central America and introduced into Australia to kill the previously invasive Lantana camara plant.
The lantana bug (Aconophora compressa) for example is a polyphagous species introduced in 1995 that feeds on dozens of plants, and not only has it failed to have a noticeable impact on the lantana population, it has even become a pest in horticulture, parasitizing the related fiddlewoods (Citharexylum).
Cases of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning are raising concern about the "invisible killer" this holiday travel season. On Christmas Day, a family of four from Massachusetts was found dead inside ...
Lantana camara: big-sage, wild-sage, tickberry Verbenaceae: The toxicity of L. camara to humans is undetermined, with several studies suggesting that ingesting unripe berries can be toxic to humans. [149] Other studies have found evidence which suggests that ingestion of L. camara fruit poses no risk to humans and are in fact edible when ripe ...
The good news for the milkvetch plant is that they usually need wildfire to sprout — meaning dormant seeds now have a massive new habitat for a new crop of the rare shrub.
A $25,000 reward is being offered for information related to the poisoning of wolves, eagles, dogs and others in Eastern Oregon. Police seek info in poisoning of 3 wolves, 2 eagles, cougar, coyote ...