affinis

The Gambusia affinis is commonly known as the "mosquito fish" because of its healthy appetite for the larvae of the irritating and disease-spreading insects.

Easter Lemming Liberal News 2008

"A citizen-scientist outside Peoria actually sent in a photograph of a species of bumblebee, the rusty patched bumblebee, bombus affinis, that was thought to have gone extinct in that area, and was recovered by a private citizen with a digital camera."

Bee Expert Honored with Tyler Environmental Prize 2011

A group of evergreen ferns such as Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata', the hard fern Blechnum spicant and the hart's tongue fern Asplenium scolopendrium would look great through winter, and you could interplant these with primroses, so you get early spring flowers peeping out among them, like a little spring woodland floor scene.

Stumped? Acers, plus shady window boxes Lia Leendertz 2010

Exotic birds include Indian mynah Acridotheres tristis and barn owl Tyto alba affinis.

Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve, Seychelles 2008

Delicate measurements of the tuberous bush cricket, Platycleis affinis, showed that its testes accounted for 14% of the insect's body weight.

Largest testicles of any species? That would be the bush cricket Ian Sample 2010

Over the weekend, I discovered my little p. affinis had sent up a shoot nearly a foot long already.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

These data clearly indicate dramatic declines in the abundance of several waterfowl species (e.g., scoters – Melanitta spp., lesser scaup – Aythya affinis) with core breeding areas located in the northwestern boreal forest of Canada.

Impacts on aquatic birds and mammals in the Arctic 2009

Over the weekend, I discovered my little p. affinis had sent up a shoot nearly a foot long already.

Jayme Lynn Blaschke's Gibberish 2009

These include the isopod Saduria entomon, the amphipod Monoporeia affinis, the Baltic mussel Macoma bathica, a few semi-pelagic opossum shrimp species (Mysidae) and the common sea snail Liparis liparis.

Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden 2008

There are various bird species such as the keel-billed toucan (Ramphastus sulfuratus), black-chested jay or "chau-chau" (Cyanocorax affinis), Tangara gyrola, Arantinga wagleri, Pharomacrus fulgidus festatus, blue-knobbed curassow or "paujil" (Crax alberti), crested guan or "pava" (Penelope purpurascens brunnescens), Chlorostilbon russatus and Anthocephala floriceps floriceps.

Santa Marta montane forests 2008