He identified the camel cricket as their main seed disperser, the first evidence
of camel crickets being used for seed dispersal in the flowering plants.
The Your Wild Life team needs citizen scientists to share observations and photos
of camel crickets
Not exact matches
With their long, spiky legs and their propensity for eating anything, including each other,
camel crickets are the stuff
of nightmares.
The most common species reported, by more than 90 percent
of respondents, was the greenhouse
camel cricket (Diestrammena asynamora).
«Parasitic plants rely on unusual method to spread their seeds: Convergent evolution
of internal seed dispersal by
camel crickets.»
Three species
of non-photosynthetic plants rely mainly on
camel crickets to disperse their seeds, according to new research from Project Associate Professor Suetsugu Kenji (Kobe University Graduate School
of Science).
«We don't know what kind
of impact this species has on local ecosystems though it's possible that the greenhouse
camel cricket could be driving out native
camel cricket species in homes,» Epps says.
«The good news is that
camel crickets don't bite or pose any kind
of threat to humans,» says Dr. Mary Jane Epps, a postdoctoral researcher at NC State and lead author
of a paper about the research.
The researchers report that the vast majority
of pictures shared with them starred a
camel cricket native to Japan, not North America: Diestrammena asynamora.
There are two sessions which are common for all editions
of the conference: «Behavioral research in human and other primates» and the «Noah's Ark» which is devoted to the non-standard animal models, like
camels, goats, fish or
crickets.
Now add thousands
of extra people,
cricket matches, longest - moustache competitions, and more
camels than you can count.