Proliferation of Argentine Ants in California Linked to Declines in...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  February 26, 2002 ;     787 words ......in the state's population of coastal horned lizards. In separate papers published this...that the severe decline in coastal horned lizards in southern California in recent years...agent contributing to the decline of horned lizards-an invasive ant species. Moreover...

Rare lizard receives help from two OSU students

University Wire;  August 28, 1998 ;   Jennifer Plummer;   539 words ......U-WIRE) STILLWATER, Okla. -- Texas horned lizards are becoming scarce and two Oklahoma...conservation of the various species of horned lizards which are found in the West and Southwest...the horny toads in the future." Texas horned lizards are listed by the Oklahoma and federal...

WATCHING OUT FOR AN ORIGINAL TEXAN

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 20, 2007 ;     701 words ......surprise ending. Among non-fiction Texas Horned Lizards, "Old Rip" is the most famous. It's...dramatically diminished their native habitat. Horned Lizards are now almost impossible to find in...coupled with an amiable personality. Horned Lizards are three to five inches long. They...

'Nature Nights' allow parents, children to experience Texas wildlife

University Wire;  July 6, 2007 ;   Katie Flores;   472 words ......colored pictures and wore masks of horned lizards last night at the first of four summer...center started its series with a talk on horned lizards given by Bill Brooks, former president...chance to color in pictures and masks of horned lizards. They also had a chance to see slides...

For the Love of a Horned Lizard.(wildlife protection efforts)(Brief...

National Wildlife;  August 1, 2001 ;   Lantz, Gary;   706 words ...Texas horned lizards were once so common that in the...exterminate the lizards' prey. In Texas, horned lizards have disappeared from at least 30...200 harvester ants a day. Mature horned lizards are resistant to the ants' venom...

UPI Texas Third News Briefs.

United Press International;  May 18, 1999 ;     325 words ......Texas A&M University-Kingsville say they may know why horned lizards are disappearing from Texas. Scientists Scott Henke and...possibility the disease is reponsible for the decline in horned lizards. Henke says malaria would reduce reproduction among the...

Outdoors south

Southern Living;  August 1, 2001 ;   Ford, Gary D;   670 words ......this threatened Texas species. Texas horned lizards (Phrynosoma cornutumare) are better...up handling horny toads. That's when horned lizards seemed to be everywhere, skittering...South Texas management area outfitting horned lizards with little backpacks that assist in...

Ecology and Ontogenetic Variation of Diet in the Pigmy Short-Horned Lizard...

The American Midland Naturalist;  April 1, 2008 ;   Lahti, Megan E; Beck, Daniel D;   787 words ......generalized diet, similar to other short-horned lizards or a more specialized diet consisting...body sizes. Similar to other short-horned lizards, P. douglasii consumes relatively lower...Phrynosomatid lizards, particularly horned lizards. INTRODUCTION Ontogenetic variation...

COUNTY WILL SEEK HABITAT FUNDS.(News)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  December 13, 2000 ;     347 words ......nesting raptors, Western mastiff bats and San Diego coast horned lizards, all listed by the state as species of special concern...the Santa Susana tarplant and the California and San Diego horned lizards, along with 27 other species of special concern. Purchase...

Texas Horny Toad Population Dwindling

All Things Considered (NPR);  May 28, 1993 ;     787 words ......SHURBROOK: Something's happened to horned lizards out there in eastern and central Texas...astronomical rate in Texas, are eating newborn horned lizards and crowding out their sole natural...area. And my theory has been that the horned lizards have disappeared because of DDT back...

'Toad' fest to get Coalinga hopping Four-day event will include lizard...

The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA);  May 20, 2002 ;   Coleman, Donald E.;   787 words ......reptiles are returned to their habitats when the derby is over. Horned lizards, often called horny toads and horned toads, are members...or yellow. The underparts are pale, yellowish gray. Some horned lizards, once plentiful denizens of the Valley, are creatures of...

Super Squirter

Click;  October 1, 2007 ;   Anonymous;   102 words ...This fierce fellow and the spiky guy on our cover are both horned lizards. They're only about as long as your hand, but they can eat hundreds of ants a day. That big belly makes it hard for the little...

Elegy for the ancient tree.(five poems)(Poem)

The American Poetry Review;  September 1, 2005 ;   Moss, Stanley;   347 words ......the tree's gentleness with bees and butterflies, its hospitality to rodents, lavender and Lad's-love, that for centuries horned lizards, toads and snakes hid in its dens--the joys and sorrows it found in heavy rains and snows, its heroism at the timberline...

CROSS PLAINS KIDS ENDURE WILDFIRES, RALLY TO WIN HORNED LIZARD ESSAY...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 24, 2006 ;     735 words ......difficult time." Once common across the state, numbers of Texas horned lizards have declined in recent decades. This prompted a creative...offered an array of explanations as to when and why the horned lizards are disappearing. The most common accounts state the horned...

NEWHALL RANCH WILDLIFE POSES PUZZLE.(News)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  May 6, 2007 ;     675 words ......spineflowers, Southwest arroyo toads, Western spadefoot toads, horned lizards and many other species already call the project site home...for their food, could take another food source away from horned lizards, a rare species, Long said. That's because small Argentine...