Snakes Invasive To Guam Have Wiped Out Bird Populations And Allowed Spiders To Reach Plague Proportions (via Planetsave)
The disappearance of forest birds Guam’s island ecosystem, as a result of the invasive brown treesnake, has led to a ‘plague’ of spiders in the local jungles. Nearly 40 times more spiders live in Guam’s jungles than in the jungles of neighboring islands that haven’t been exposed to the brown…