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Surfers beware: Bearded fireworms, caterpillarlike critters that look like they are straight out of a horror movie are lurking in the sand on Texas beaches. " Your worst nightmares are washing up ...
Your worst nightmares are washing up right now in the form of fireworms!," according to a Facebook post by the Harte Research Institute, a division of Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi.
redbay ambrosia beetle Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: In the southeastern United States, the reported hosts of the redbay ambrosia beetle/laurel wilt pathogen have included the red bay (Persea borbonia), silk bay (P. borbonia var. humbles), swamp bay (P. palustris), sassafras (Sassafras album), and avocado (P. americana).
It is about 113 miles (182 km) long [2] [3]: 186 and 1.8 miles (3 km) wide, [4] stretching from the city of Corpus Christi, in the north, to the resort community of South Padre Island in the south. The island is oriented north-south, bordered by the Gulf of Mexico on the east and Laguna Madre on the west.
Jace Tunnell, a marine biologist from the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Harte Research Institute, spoke to the Laredo Morning Times about what his team has observed.
PINS is situated along the Central Flyway, Padre Island is a globally important area for over 380 migratory, overwintering, and resident bird species (nearly half of all bird species documented in North America). The national seashore is located on [North] Padre Island near the city of Corpus Christi, Texas.
The Brachypsectridae are a family of beetles commonly known as the Texas beetles. [1] There are only two extant genera , Brachypsectra and Asiopsectra . Brachypsectra has a cosmopolitan distribution, mostly in arid regions, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] while Asiopsectra is found in Central Asia and the Middle East.
Spring breakers flocking to TX beaches this month could stumble upon a sight many have never seen — a bright blue and silver sea slug known as the blue dragon.