The federal government is preparing to drop dead mice laced with a snake toxicant into the jungles of Guam in the latest effort to control the thousands of brown tree snakes that have invaded the ...

By way of the US military, the brown tree snake, Boiga irregularis, was introduced to Guam during World War II.This invasive snake, a notoriously voracious predator, quickly gobbled up all the ...

A brown tree snake on a pole. Image: Bruce Jayne “We didn’t expect that the brown tree snake would be able to find a way around the baffle,” said Seibert in a CSU press release.

The brown tree snake, or boiga irregularis, has multiplied uncontrollably on Pacific islands including Guam and the Marianna Islands, where the species was introduced by U.S. troops in World War ...

W hat really turns a brown tree snake on? That’s the question Rocky Parker, a chemical ecologist at James Madison University in Virginia, has been trying to answer these past few years, and it hasn’t ...

An invasive brown tree snake population has been found on Cocos Island, an 83.1 acre atoll located 1.5 miles off the southwest coast of Guam. The brown tree snake was a major contributor to the ...

The novel technique is great news for Guam’s brown tree snakes, bad news for the island’s nesting birds. By Sabrina Imbler In 2016, on the northern tip of Guam, two biologists, Tom Seibert and ...

For more than 40 years, generations of Sihek have been raised in captivity amid efforts to eradicate the brown tree snake from Guam. However, the snake population is now estimated at 2 million ...

Why it matters — Understanding the brown tree snake's unique mode of locomotion can help us figure out why it's so good at killing local bird species in Guam. Following the introduction of the ...

The brown tree snake, a tree-dwelling reptile native to Australia, Papua New Guinea, and several Pacific islands, was inadvertently brought to Guam after World War II, likely by cargo ships.The ...

The brown tree snake was accidentally introduced to Guam via shipments of U.S. military materials during World War II, according to a Department of Defense (DOD) spokesperson.

Snakes do a lot more than slither. Some swim, while others sidewind across sand (SN: 10/9/14).Some snakes even fly (SN: 6/29/20).But no one has ever seen a snake move the way that brown tree ...