Since I am on a rant about invasive plants, let me share this cool little graphic about garlic mustard that the friends of the local park just sent out.

Not mentioned here is that another way this little fucker is so insidious is that it disrupts the mycorrhiza that many native plants need to grow.

More info on garlic mustard here: https://www.sierraclub.org/maryland/blog/2018/04/invasive-weed-month-may-garlic-mustard

Well...at least no one is posting arty photos of this one.

#InvasivePlants #InvasiveSpecies #Pollinators #NativePlants

As things start blooming in the US at the start of spring, please consider not promoting invasive species by showing off your arty photos of them. Here is one I have seen a bit of, callery pear sometimes known as Bradford pear. It is highly invasive in much of the eastern part of the US. It takes over habitat once populated with native trees, shrubs and other plants, which supported a wide variety of native insects and animals. 1/2

#InvasiveSpecies #InvasivePlants #Pollinators #NativePlants

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Does #ClonalIntegration benefit clonal plants against local #AllelopathicStress? Evidence from experiment of two congeneric plant pairs

#HeterogenousEnvironment | #InvasiveSpecies | #ResourceTranslocation

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtag066

#InvasiveSpecies are the second cause of endangerment and extinction of wildlife. Please stop importing and buying "decorative plants" and "exotic pets". Thank you for your action on this matter.

https://youtu.be/QEm_4-2GZRE?si=n5Bu9rKrc6eFKU4H

#EcologicalCollapse

“It’s fantastic to see the continued positive impact that removing stoats from Orkney is having on our native wildlife.”

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/04/01/its-fantastic-to-see-the-continued-positive-impact-that-removing-stoats-from-orkney-is-having-on-our-native-wildlife/

i'm learning so much from the book "nature at war: american environments and WWII", edited by Thomas Robertson, Richard P. Tucker, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, and Peter Mansoor:

"In the South, the government encouraged farmers to plant quick- growing kudzu, the bane of many of today’s native plant enthusiasts and gardeners, with payments up to eight dollars an acre. Hence, even after the war cut off access to kudzu seed from Japan, Soil Conservation Service nurseries in states across the South kept farmers supplied with kudzu. Kudzu and lespedeza took on new significance during the war. Because nitrate factories produced bombs as well as fertilizers, enriching soils with nitrogen-fixing crops meant more artificial nitrogen could go to munitions. As one 1942 booster of legumes put it, “Oregon’s 200,000,000 pound crop of Austrian winter pea, vetch, and crimson clover seed this year is the quivalent of 24,000,000 100-pound bombs.” The crops’ use as animal feed also took on new wartime meaning. Legumes like kudzu made protein-rich hay that could replace the protein-rich components of animal fodder cut off by the war, like fish meal, which were seen as essential to maintaining and boosting meat production."

#WWII #agriculture #history #AgriculturalHistory #kudzu #InvasiveSpecies #plants

I suspect Fiona @fionaorkneynews will highlight this very positive news, but just in case, and to be able to highlight a bit of good news in these sorry times

https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/04/01/its-fantastic-to-see-the-continued-positive-impact-that-removing-stoats-from-orkney-is-having-on-our-native-wildlife/

#Orkney #Wildlife #Recovery #Environment #InvasiveSpecies #GoodNews #Scotland