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From The Saturday Paper, 4 April 2026: Vinny O’Loughlin goes out rabbit shooting at night, but he could just as easily do it during the day from his front door in the small South Australian town of Willalooka. “We’ve got half-a-dozen rabbits in our front yard in the morning when we get out of bed,” … Continue reading Australia once again losing the rabbit war
From Nature, 20 May 2024: A ubiquitous household pest has unexpected origins. A cockroach that lives in human dwellings all over the world is known as the German cockroach — but it did not come from Germany originally. A study published today1 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the creature … Continue reading The origin of the cockroach: how a notorious pest conquered the world
Bianca Nogrady 