{"id":198190,"date":"2022-08-01T18:36:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=198190"},"modified":"2022-08-01T18:36:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:06:24","slug":"american-bullfrog-and-brown-tree-snake-invasive-frog-snake-cost-world-economy-16-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/american-bullfrog-and-brown-tree-snake-invasive-frog-snake-cost-world-economy-16-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"American bullfrog and Brown tree snake: Invasive frog, snake cost world economy $16 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cInvasive frog, snake cost world economy $16 billion\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 31st July 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a study, two invasive species namely the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American bullfrog and the brown tree snake cost the world economy an estimated $16 billion between 1986 and 2020 by causing problems such as crop failure and triggered costly power failures.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>How are American Bullfrog and Brown Tree Snake impacting the world economy?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Brown Tree Snake <\/b><b>or Boiga Irregularis: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an invasive species that has multiplied uncontrollably on Pacific islands including Guam and the Marianna Islands, where it was introduced by U.S. troops in World War II.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The snakes have at times been so abundant that they caused power outages by crawling on electrical equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>American bullfrog:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a highly invasive species that had the greatest impact in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 A female bullfrog can lay up to 20,000 eggs at one time compared to native frogs which only lay 2,000 to 5,000 eggs. They can <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eat nearly anything, including other bullfrogs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 In Europe, exploding numbers of American bullfrogs have required ambitious and costly management programmes. To prevent the spread of them, officials have been forced to install expensive frog-proof fencing around known breeding sites.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cInvasive frog, snake cost world economy $16 billion\u201d published in The Hindu on 31st July 2022. What is the News? According to a study, two invasive species namely the American bullfrog and the brown tree snake cost the world economy an estimated $16 billion between 1986 and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/american-bullfrog-and-brown-tree-snake-invasive-frog-snake-cost-world-economy-16-billion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">American bullfrog and Brown tree snake: Invasive frog, snake cost world economy $16 billion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-198190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704887505},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}