I'll say that there's some great points in there, and more study is waranted. However, the bigger problem is invasive bugs. They can breed so quickly its incredibly hard to contain them....
I'll say that there's some great points in there, and more study is waranted.
However, the bigger problem is invasive bugs. They can breed so quickly its incredibly hard to contain them. Lanternflies in particular are ravaging trees in the northeast. A potential upside is that the Praying Mantis eats them...but the population of the praying mantis (some species of which are also invasive iirc) is so low that they'd wipe out a good majority of trees and god knows what else before the mantis population grew enough to mitigate.
Personally I'm against intentionally planting decorative foriegn plants...there's plenty of beautiful local plants that can be planted pretty much anywhere.
Oh man the Gypsy moth. Where I grew up those catepilliars would just devour every leaf off 100 or more 50 ft+ tall trees. Killing half of them. Quick blasts with a flamethrower was pretty...
Oh man the Gypsy moth. Where I grew up those catepilliars would just devour every leaf off 100 or more 50 ft+ tall trees. Killing half of them.
Quick blasts with a flamethrower was pretty effective for the larger nests.
I'll say that there's some great points in there, and more study is waranted.
However, the bigger problem is invasive bugs. They can breed so quickly its incredibly hard to contain them. Lanternflies in particular are ravaging trees in the northeast. A potential upside is that the Praying Mantis eats them...but the population of the praying mantis (some species of which are also invasive iirc) is so low that they'd wipe out a good majority of trees and god knows what else before the mantis population grew enough to mitigate.
Personally I'm against intentionally planting decorative foriegn plants...there's plenty of beautiful local plants that can be planted pretty much anywhere.
Also the snakehead/hellfish. Gypsy moth. Humans?
Oh man the Gypsy moth. Where I grew up those catepilliars would just devour every leaf off 100 or more 50 ft+ tall trees. Killing half of them.
Quick blasts with a flamethrower was pretty effective for the larger nests.