Invasive Species of the Day

Is the Brown Tree Snake!

Experts try ways to capture snakes

Native to Australia, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands, it was accidentally introduced to Guam soon after WWII. Mildly poisonous, it hunts the native bird population and (with Guam's birds now rare) lizards. And how are they fighting the snake? They stuff dead mice with acetaminophen and drop them from helicopters. Really. I didn't know Wile E. Coyote was running Guam's Department of Enviromental Management, but it turns out that Tylenol is poisonous to brown tree snakes.