Guam has fought the invasive brown tree snake for decades, deploying parachuting dead mice laced with Tylenol to curb the ...

Guam, a small U.S. territory in the Western Pacific, has suffered a devastating reptile invasion since around 1950.

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Brown tree snakes are causing a problem in Guam. And now, efforts being used to reduce the brown tree snake population by using dead mice, a... In Guam, U.S. Drops Dosed Dead Mice To Stem Snake ...

IT'S MIDNIGHT ON Guam, and an eight-foot-long brown tree snake has just emerged from a toilet bowl. After hours of slithering through sewage pipes, she's hungry. She slides across the bathroom floor ...

Invasive species are among the most significant threats to the United States’ native wildlife, biodiversity, and fragile ...

One of the most infamous examples of what can happen when a nonnative species is introduced into a new environment involves the brown tree snake -- a voracious, semi-venomous species that in less than ...

With all other efforts to cull a teeming population of snakes failing, U.S. officials in Guam have called in air support. On Sunday, approximately 2,000 dead mice pumped full of Tylenol were dropped ...

In Jeff Avery’s classroom at George Washington High School, a lot of time is spent outdoors checking snake traps, planting ...