{"id":13027,"date":"2022-06-08T11:48:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T16:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/?p=13027"},"modified":"2022-07-05T09:10:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T14:10:22","slug":"closed-for-june-invasive-spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/closed-for-june-invasive-spiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Closed for June &#8211; Invasive Spiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Note: All links below go to external sites.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Howdy, BugFans,<\/p>\n<p>Remember \u2013 the BugLady is on vacation for the month of June, hoping for the rain to stop and the temperatures to rise (a little bit \u2013 she gets brain-dead when it gets above 74 degrees) and the insects to swim\/crawl\/fly.<\/p>\n<p>June is Invasive Species Awareness Month in the State of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the big deal? After all, as one (clueless) candidate for head of the Department of the Interior said about 15 years ago, introduced species result in a net gain in species.<\/p>\n<p>Not all introduced species go rogue &#8211; alfalfa isn\u2019t taking over the world, and neither are Holsteins \u2013 but some do wreak havoc. The words introduced, non-native, exotic, alien, and invasive are NOT synonymous. The first four refer to species that aren\u2019t from around here, but the last refers to species that, absent their normal grazers\/predators, have logarithmic population booms and affect their habitat and the native species negatively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2Fsmart-news%2Flarge-parachuting-spiders-could-soon-invade-the-east-coast-study-finds-180979694%2F%3Futm_source%3Dsmithsoniandaily%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3D20220308-daily-responsive%26spMailingID%3D46512028%26spUserID%3DODg4Mzc3MzY0MTUyS0%26spJobID%3D2200870165%26spReportId%3DMjIwMDg3MDE2NQS2&amp;data=05%7C01%7Clachaus2%40uwm.edu%7Cfab9588b11e94cc8387108da48fd7c03%7C0bca7ac3fcb64efd89eb6de97603cf21%7C0%7C0%7C637902550789723547%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=7OijPz1tl0kvSn1mUrSXSIjZU3HTQ4JtYhbWmm7z32E%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Here\u2019s a story about a large and recent addition to our \u201carachni-fauna.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The BugLady<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: All links below go to external sites. 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