You might might think that they'd make up or this by being havens for wildlife and food sources for pollinators, but as an invasive non-native species such large areas of buddleja monoculture do not seen to attract wildlife in any sort of numbers. This photo was taken on a sunny summer's day, and there were almost no bees, butterflies or other wildlife visibly using the buddleja.

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It's not hard to see where the buddleja which infests Glasgow's historic buildings comes from. This area of wasteland in front of the former Tobago Street Police Station in the East End of Glasgow is capable of producing hundreds of millions of wind-blown seeds every year.

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