Jackdaws eat invasive caterpillars, video

This 25 May 2018 video shows jackdaws eating invasive box-tree moth caterpillars in Wijchen town and Tilburg city in the Netherlands. Box tree moths, originally from Asia, harm box trees.

K. Tijsse Klasen in Wijchen and Hans Hermans in Tilburg made this video.

It is warning not to kill the invasive caterpillars with insecticides; as these would kill the birds.

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petrel41 on May 30, 2018 at 6:33 am said:

Yes, it is better that the birds eat these invasive moths than that the food chain is poisoned by insecticides.

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- hithame halawa - هيثم حلاوه on May 30, 2018 at 7:31 am said:
  
  This is Adaptation in biology is an evolutionary process in which organisms become more adaptable to live and multiply in their environment. The term adaptation also refers to a functional role in the life history of an organism that has been conserved and developed by
  natural selection.
  
  Greetings my esteemed friend
  
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  - petrel41 on May 30, 2018 at 7:48 am said:
    
    Thanks for your kind words!
    
    Indeed. At first, the jackdaws did not know what to do with this new invasive species. But they adapted, starting to eat them.
    
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