MIAMI—Floridians have grown accustomed to invasions of exotic creatures, like the Burmese pythons slithering throughout the Everglades. But residents here are especially grossed out by the latest arrivals: giant African land snails that grow as long as eight inches, chew through plants, plaster and stucco, and sometimes carry a parasite that can infect humans with a nonlethal strain of meningitis.
The gastropods are among the most dangerous in the world, agriculture officials say. They each have male and female reproductive organs and can lay 1,200 eggs a year, allowing them to proliferate rapidly. Thousands of them have infested at least five separate neighborhoods in the Miami area.
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another plague... How many more will the world need before they realize that God's hand is in EVERYTHING!
ReplyDeleteNot only giant snails, honeybees dying in their millions in Florida:
ReplyDeleteHoneybee Apocalypse up to 12 million bees dead in Florida
I found this comment posted on the article about the 12 million bees that died in Florida "...I would guess that this is a new form of terrorism. Think of the chaos that can ensue if no bees are available to pollenate crops. Plants don't reproduce, animals don't eat, and we don't survive."
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's terrorism, just another plague. The Hand of God is everywhere.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2044764/The-mysterious-honeybee-apocalypse-Up-12-million-bees-dead-dying-Florida-knows-why.html#ixzz1ZqCH2wlK
British Media are so succinctly melodramatic: "Honeybee carcasses coated the ground around hundreds of Florida beehives after a mysterious [British-massacre] beekill claimed as many as 12 million bees from 800 hives and [Brit-mutilated] destroyed a way of life for local bee keepers and no one knows why. 'The fact that it was so widespread and so rapid, I think you can pretty much rule out disease,' Bill Kern, a University of Florida entomologist, told Florida Today. 'It happened essentially almost in one day.'"
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like Florida is in God's sights
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