I am delighted to report that ducks really do eat Duckweed. These guys remind me of the ADM TV commercials with rows of tandem combines cutting through endless fields of wheat.
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Materials Center and they grew among other things Duckweed to seed out for waterfowl.
It's nice to know that a common name means something. In this case, well named.
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Richard Mabey's -Flora Britannica- has an interesting entry for duckweed. In some parts of England it is personified as ' Jenny Greenteeth," a hag who lures children to death by drowning by covering the surface of ponds so thickly they appear to be solid ground.
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My dog fell for that (literally) a few years ago. We were walking along a sluggish river that was completely covered with duckweed. The dog saw something on a small island and went bounding toward it. Was she ever surprised when she discovered the green area was water and not land. Jenny Greenteeth had chosen a faulty spot for her trap, as the water was only a foot or so deep.
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