Talk:Brown tree snake

Reproductive cycle?
A tourist guide to Hawaii that I'm reading makes the claim that a female, once fertilized can lay eggs for the rest of her life without needing to have sex with a male again. This is why it's so important to keep them out of ecosystems where they don't currently live: because even one snake can spawn hundreds or thousands of others. Anyway, this seems biologically fascinating to me, if a bit unlikely. Since I got this peice of info from a tourist book rather than a biology text, I didn't want to add it to the article, but I wondered if anyone else knew anything about this. --Jfruh 15:35, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Reproductive Cycle?
While this is not entirely true, most snake species CAN store sperm for several years after mating, and produce eggs over several years.

Plagiarism?
The second half of this article is identical to this one: []

Kyledr 06:50, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Capitalization
Is there a reason that the word “brown” is capitalized throughout the article? I would expect each word of the name to begin with capitals (“Brown Tree Snake”) or to be entirely in lowercase (“brown tree snake”). —Patrick Garies 06:56, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

What's this about APAP?
Could you please elaborate... How can acetaminophen(APAP/Paracetamol) be used to kill snakes? I know APAP is toxic to many animals but how are you supposed to get it into their system? Is it used like some kind of rat poison? Maybe its just me misunderstanding something LOL.. Please clear it up in the article. Thank you :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.92.26.104 (talk) 15:27, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

I did a simple search and it seems to be correct. They give it to mice and hope the snake will eat it. There is already a reference in the section, but it needs to be formatted correctly. I added a reference too.--MartinezMD (talk) 19:03, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

recent article http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/22/guam-brown-tree-snake_n_2740733.html?utm_hp_ref=world&ir=World

Killed almost the entire human population
Currently the article says:

The slightly venomous but generally harmless snake came north to Guam and killed almost the entire human population on the previously snake‐free island.

How did a harmless snake do this?

Ordinary Person (talk) 02:14, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

thats kinda scary...

That was prior vandalism that changed bird to human. It has been fixed some time ago.--MartinezMD (talk) 00:42, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Power outages?
The article says the snake's invasion of Guam caused numerous power outages, but gives no explanation of how. Vandalism, or am I just missing something? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.207.209.19 (talk) 19:39, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
 * That entire sentence is taken directly from the reference - a summary of the US Geological Survery report, so it isn't vandalism. However I am unable to find the ful report to explain how it happened.  The snakes could have damaged transformers or relays if they got into the equipment, but that is only my speculation.  It would be nice if someone can help me find the full report.--MartinezMD (talk) 19:49, 3 July 2010 (UTC)


 * You're correct - they climb into transformers or other equipment, causing shorts, either directly from tree-height branches or up the pole itself. Though some cynical folks on Guam think the power company is just using the snakes as an excuse for poor service. Mokele (talk) 17:13, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Amphetamine???
In the section on control there is a reference to amphetamine that I believe should be acetaminophen. Not having access to the sources referenced, I am not making the change. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.109.184.134 (talk) 18:13, 28 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Good catch, fixed. HCA (talk) 21:11, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Range Map
The current range map image File:Boiga irregularis rangemap.jpg attributed to USGS contains a significant glaring error. It labels the entire island of New Guinea as "Papua New Guinea". Papua New Guinea is the political name of the independent nation that occupies the eastern half of New Guinea Island. While this range map is not meant to be a political map, labeling New Guinea this way puts the nation name "Papua New Guinea" atop the Indonesian portion of New Guinea (western half of the island) which is currently divided, east to west, as Papua Province and West Papua Province, of Indonesia. Remedy; use an image that replaces "Papua New Guinea" with "New Guinea" for New Guinea Island.Buaya (talk) 07:17, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Brown tree snake. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120113032921/http://www.unco.edu/biology/faculty_staff/mackessy/2008%20JHerp%20BTS%20and%20moonlight.pdf to http://www.unco.edu/biology/faculty_staff/mackessy/2008%20JHerp%20BTS%20and%20moonlight.pdf

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 15:48, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Brown tree snake
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Brown tree snake's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "iucn": From Timeline of extinctions in the Holocene:  From Synonym (taxonomy):  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 23:03, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Conflicting statements re Saipan
In the Invasive Species first paragraph, it says there's been no sightings for 20 years, but four paragraphs down the page (under the Native Habitat heading) it says four snakes have been sighted since 2016.

Which of the two statements should one believe? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:1659:BA00:B809:6B95:CEC8:F211 (talk) 06:20, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Conservation Biology
— Assignment last updated by Otter246 (talk) 22:12, 16 October 2023 (UTC)