fionamw

I'm betting on little green men causing the screeching sound (either that or the cackling of Google accountants delighting in the sudden influx of bizarre searches - mine included, I hasten to add)

campolife

HaHa

I still have to say WUM

jdr

If you see a cow scratching it`s arse then you know it has been near them.

jjh

[QUOTE=lynnxa;8249037]but what are they really called?


the latin name maybe, cos I'm sure I'm not the only one to come up with nothing from google with the name you're using, and as campolife says, some pictures so that we all know what to look out for[/QUOTE

I agree lynnxa I have googled and have come up with nothing. We have 2 dogs and a cat so we would really like to know the risks and to be able to identify it would be a blessing

simon2129

sorry i am not sure of the Latin name however i will ask my horticulturer friend in the uk and hopefully he can send me a picture so i can post .If anyone else has a pic please post ,my friend has just told me they are dangerous when approached but mainly they prefer to lie flat in damp areas in and around ¨Rancid Turnips ,pigs cheeks and have been found in abandoned shoes hence dancing queens soft shoe shuffle comment i presume .Hope this helps

jjh

If this is some sort of windup, then it´s really not funny.

jjh

Get a grip, this really is not funny

fionamw

Well it is kind of unbelievably funny..... they've been yellowy green plants which secrete red liquid & screech, they've been prawn like creatures, they've been trollops, turnips, native to North Africa and the Canaries yet only in confined conditions in Fuerteventura...... they can't even keep a consistent story going

Oh, and btw, google The National Horticulture, the presumably expert journal they quote.....

jjh

They quote what Fiona ?

Madridboy

Is this supposed to be it http://www.gardenology.org/wiki/Trumpet_vine?
Or am I just adding to chuloogle, I mean google finances as well?

lynnxa

where's rugbymatt when you need him?


he'll know

lynnxa

that's all I (& fiona I think) came up with

but it doesn't fit the description given & says nothing about a foul smell or screeching

lynnxa

possibly

look at these

Madridboy

fuuny thing is that google brought this site in the first search result.

fionamw

Yip.

Ref. The National Horticulture, it was mentioned as the place referring to the little blighters as rancid trollops .... which incidentally means Loose Women & reference to Loose Women is the only mention of rancid trollops I found when googling. Ho hum (ps your link came up with no matches Lynn, or was that the point?)