dieee bitch dieeeeeee

Was out in the yard picking up sticks left over from the winter for the first mowing of the year and walked by the japanese barberry by the back corner of the garage and an arching switch grabbed ahold of my coverall and somehow wrapped itself around my arm absolutely scouring the inside of my forearm leaving me dripping blood from several footlong shreds in my skin

so I grabbed my japanese pull saw and made sure that motherfucker suffered, and poured a quart of concentrated triclopyr on the stump. I'd have set it on fire had it not been so close to the garage

Japanese Barberry was clearly the royal house plant of house Bolton

#gardening #invasives

Zapraszamy do odbiorników do słuchania audycji o koncercie Dead Bob • Javva @ Klub Mechanik • 13.09 w @radiokapital 📣 A w niej wspólnie z Hamster House przedstawiamy te zespoły, a także sięgamy do korzeni muzyków, których John Wright zaprosił do wspólnego grania: #Invasives, #Rong, #HansonBrothers, i #PigmentVehicle.

Posłuchamy również JAVVA oraz ansambl Mitch & Mitch!

🎶 https://mixcloud.com/radiokapital/radio-kapita%C5%82-co%C5%9B-si%C4%99-dzieje-dead-bob-ex-nomeansno-javva-mechanik-2025-09-13/

DW @pawarota

#radio #podcast #muzyka #deadbob #nomeansno

Monarch butterfly swarms drawn to invasive weeds near Nannup in WA

#butterflies #monarchs #nature #bittersweet #invasives

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-18/monarch-butterflies-attracted-invasive-weeds-nannup-wa/105662706

🌭 In California, an invasive mustard is destabilizing desert plant communities

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/in-california-an-invasive-mustard-is-destabilizing-desert-plant-communities/

#plants #weeds #california #invasives #desert #ecology #environment

🪁 Non-native trees gain ground in eastern US, reducing native species diversity

(... blame Ben Franklin!)

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-native-trees-gain-ground-eastern.html

#forests #northeast #usa #biodiversity #invasives #ecology #conservation

New (?) invasive pest defoliating boxwood shrubs.

Box tree moth is new to this part of SE Michigan. I'm not a big fan of boxwood, but it's common.
Useful write up by a local paper.

The box tree moth can defoliate, and even kill, a shrub in just one season.

#gardening #boxwood #boxtreemoth #Michigan #invasives

https://www.livingstondaily.com/story/news/local/2025/03/21/boxwood-trees-are-being-threatened-by-an-invasive-moth-in-livingston/82523632007/

A non-native invasive moth has been lurking in the Northeast for more than 120 years and has recently become a pest again – of trees and people – in parts of Maine. Learn more about the ups and downs of browntail moths in my latest article for Northern Woodlands.

#foresthealth #invasives #invasivespecies

https://northernwoodlands.org/knots_and_bolts/browntail-moths