How To Use Gambusia In A Sentence
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Surviving populations at Big Bend, which live in a single, protected pool, descend from three gambusias rescued from the declining population in 1956.
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Native gambusias are the best choice for mosquito control; those desiring underwater color should invest a pittance in dime-apiece ‘feeder goldfish.’
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Fish around in the lagoon include eels, gambusias and the springer great mullet.
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If anything, the gambusias may be too small for the gar to bother with right now.
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The unique mound springs are threatened by weed infestation, trampling by domestic stock and feral animals, and exotic fish species such as eastern gambusia (Gambusia holbrooki), and extraction of water from the Great Artesian Basin aquifer which leads to decline and extinction of springs.
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The ESA was not enough to save two species of fish in Texas, the Amistad and San Marcos gambusias; a bird in Florida, the dusky seaside sparrow; or a fish in Maryland, the Maryland darter.
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The water also has been stocked with minnowlike mosquito fish, also called gambusia, which eat mosquito larvae.
Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories
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The gambusias were fine, and the vals I had (which I collected from a freshwater stream about 500 km from the sea) were growing faster than ever.
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He, who grew up on the north shore of Lake Maggiore, filled a fish pond in the back yard with water hyacinths and gambusias from Lake Maggiore.
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Dozens of small gambusia fish in each pool keep mosquitoes in check.
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At the creek, I'd dip into current or up under the banks, for eels, small cats, suckers, and in the flow for dace, gambusias, and even small jack and perch.
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The springs contain the only remaining populations of two small fish, the fountain darter and the San Marcos gambusia; the Texas blind salamander; the San Marcos salamander; the Comal Springs Riffle beetle, the Comal Springs Dryopid beetle, the Peck's cave amphipod, an invertebrate; and Texas wild-rice.
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The gambusia can retreat to the pool during dry periods and then re-colonize other areas as the water returns.
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The Gambusia just keep taking bites out of the tadpoles, and the tadpoles end up kind of stubby," says the study's author, Sharon Lawler, a professor of entomology at University of California at Davis.
For Mortgages Underwater, Help Swims In
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In fact, the San Marcos gambusia hasn't been seen since the early 1980s and could already be extinct.
The Seattle Times
