Dear friends and colleagues:
On Monday November 15, 2010, at 10:00 am hours, we received the call Local Police San Cristobal de La Laguna warning of the presence of a tarantula in the school garden CEIP San MatÃas. The teachers were very nervous and some mothers were being organized to force the seal of the college until it had been sprayed and controlled the absence of danger.
At 10:25 Neotropical Foundation staff appeared, accompanied by a police patrol on the Environment of La Laguna, the school said it was checking a single common garden spider , an adult female of the species Argiope trifasciata (Forskal, 1775) .
This species, despite being considered non-native, is abundant in rural areas of Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and Gran Canaria and completely harmless to humans.
At the request of the director of the school proceeded to remove the copy to safeguard his life while minimizing the alarm and state the obvious excitement of teachers and mothers.
Today Tuesday 16 November, proceeded to release the spider in the gardens of the Neotropical Foundation in Mesa Mota, La Laguna, where it will remain protected of direct human action.
Attached is a picture of the spider just before his return to the wild.
Greetings.
0 comments:
Post a Comment