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After a long day, baby and dog are very excited for Daddy to pull into the driveway!

Not even record flooding can stop the fire ants in South Carolina. Video recorded by WSAV photojournalist Chris Murray shows what appears to be a floating island of fire ants on top of the water in Dorchester County, South Carolina.

This incomparable vision in white looks like something out of a fairy-tale wedding. It’s astonishing what can be accomplished with a single round white tier, when layers and layers of white are applied, one on top of the other. The lacey doily effect that covers the top and drapes down the side is edged with a delicate woven edge, then additional sculpted trim, to give this design texture and that “oooooh” factor. Tassels, hanging from the top points of the scallops, bring even further drama into the limelight. The bottom edge of the cake is finished off with an icing ruffle, embellished with a combed effect. Crowning the affair is a clutch of magnificent hand-formed white roses, and sprigs of white, supporting tiny white pearls. This “White Wedding” could take honors in any line-up of wedding designs, and will add one more splendiferous memory to this all important occasion.

*****WARNING: inappropriate/ strong language!******

SAY “NO” TO PLASTIC STRAWS, AND ANY KIND OF ONE-TIME USE PLASTIC ITEMS!

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Our research team in collaboration with Christine Figgener and Dr. Nathan J. Robinson found a male Olive Ridley sea turtle during our in-water research trip in Costa Rica.
He had a 10-12 cm PLASTIC STRAW lodged in his nostril.

After initially thinking that we are looking at a parasitic worm, and trying to remove it to identify it, we cut a small piece of to investigate further and finally identified what we were REALLY looking at.

After a short debate about what we should do we removed it with the plier of a swiss army knive which was the only tool available on our small boat (not intended for overnight stays), since we were on the ocean, in a developing country, a few hours away from the coast and several hours away from any vet (probably days from any vet specialised in reptiles, not to mention sea turtles) and x-ray machines. Plus, we would have incured a penalty (up to time in jail) on ourselves by removing the turtle since that is beyond our research permits. He did very obviously not enjoy the procedure very much, but we hope that he is now able to breath more freely.

The blood from the shoulder is from a 6mm skin biopsy we took previously to this event for a genetic study (part of our permitted research), which usually doesn’t bleed much, but which started bleeding while restraining the turtle.

We disinfected the air passageway with iodine and kept the turtle for observation before releasing him back into the wild.
The bleeding stopped pretty much immediately after the removal of the straw.

The turtle very likely ate the straw and regurgitated the straw where it ended up in the wrong passageway. The nasal cavity of sea turtles is connected directly to the palate (roof of the mouth) by a long nasopharyngeal duct.