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Worst invasive species in North America

Ever seen fire ants build a raft made of...themselves? persistent little jerks

I saw a show where they formed a bridge across made of themselves to get across water

Some were being swept away but the ant community kept building using their own live bodies until it was accomplished and the community could walk over the living bridge


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I saw a show where they formed a bridge across made of themselves to get across water

Some were being swept away but the ant community kept building using their own live bodies until it was accomplished and the community could walk over the living bridge


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sometimes i feel like that ant at the bottom...
 
some non-native species arent an issue but we rarely hear about those. Instead its phragmites and asian carp, blah blah. Kinda like why they only care about the bad stuff on the news. A good example of non-native that MD loves is the Sika Deer. They get a warm welcome and dont really do too much harm that im aware of, good at "stayin in their lane" (which ironically is phrag). Snakeheads are put in check enough by fisherman/ bow fisherman that i dont think theyre too out of hand yet, mainly b/c they taste good.

Sawtooth oak is a good plant example. Non native but not considered invasive by most. I’ve researched this tree quite a bit and gone back-and-forth on whether to plant or not to plant on my property and have yet to find evidence of this tree becoming invasive.


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Sawtooth oak is a good plant example. Non native but not considered invasive by most. I’ve researched this tree quite a bit and gone back-and-forth on whether to plant or not to plant on my property and have yet to find evidence of this tree becoming invasive.


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Yea slow growing hardwoods wont Have the same impact as a grass or Vine
 
Sawtooth oak is a good plant example. Non native but not considered invasive by most. I’ve researched this tree quite a bit and gone back-and-forth on whether to plant or not to plant on my property and have yet to find evidence of this tree becoming invasive.


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My dad planted a small grove of them, keeps the area mowed, and spreads clover in the area, and holy smokes is that spot a deer magnet in the early season. They took forever to start producing, but they've been money for us for several years now.
 
For me, it's multiflora rose. I have that stuff all over my place and it's hard to remove.

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Kudzu brought in to the southeast to stop erosion. It’s EVERYWHERE now and no way to stop it as far as I know


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In my professional experience (much of which is spent combating invasive species) the two that most completely disrupt functioning ecological systems here in the southeast are privet and kudzu. But the fact of the matter is, without large scale surface disturbance (humans) or their transport and release here (humans) neither would be an issue.
 
Didn't they introduce the nutria to keep the kudzu under control? How'd that go? geez
Nutria were brought over by the French for the fur trade. They only became a problem when the alligator population dropped. Once the dinosaurs came back they dwindled and now at least here they're almost rare.

Fun fact about the phrag issue. It completely replaced the native phrag. Some bio solutions company approached Alabama DCNR about removing it years ago. The conclusion was reached that killing it would be a terrible idea because it had completely replaced the native species and removing it would completely wreck the coastal estuaries and marshes.

Nature be complicated.
 
I spent a lot of hours this week ripping out Mile-a-Minute. That sh*+ is miserable.

We should all learn plant identification so we know the bad stuff when we 1st see it...kill it before it takes hold. I wish I would have done that when MaM, grape vines and oriental bittersweet 1st showed up on my property.
Luckily, I knew what knotweed looked like and I stomped the life out of the 1st plants that I saw. No knotweed on my place but its all around me.
 
Pythons, boas, as in the Florida swamps and Everglades
Other than fire ants, this one gets my vote. With many invasive species, the natives learn to live with it, even if not quite in harmony. With the Florida python, they are literally eating all of the native species. The natives are losing….badly. It remains to be seen if the natives can adapt before they are wiped out.
 
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