• j4k3@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Kudzu was the last bioweapons unit of the Union army in the US civil war. It never surrendered, it is still fighting the American South, and winning the guerilla war.

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    3 months ago

    Playing whack a mole with my neighbours ivy. Keeps popping up on my side of the fence. Fuck whoever brought it to Australia.

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      3 months ago

      I’m playing whack a mole with my own ivy. Fuck the prior house owners for letting it get out of hand. I got all of it from the trees and the side of the house but it always grows back. I’m still finding sprouts from thick woody vines that have been there forever apparently. I tried removing it from the fence but realized very quickly that it’s the only thing holding it together. 😒

      And fuck the English for bringing it over (we both know it was them, even their plants are colonizers).

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        3 months ago

        Same. I have a fence that’s barely still standing now that I removed the ivy. I’ve been pulling it and spraying it for several years now. I know I’ll never win, but I’m doing my best to keep it in check. The most painful part is when I go to garden centers and see it for sale. It makes me want to cry.

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          3 months ago

          The most painful part is when I go to garden centers and see it for sale.

          “Buy it for life!”

          notlikethat.jpg

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    3 months ago

    Nah it’s pretty intent on covering the whole of England too tbh. Good for the bees in September tho ☺️

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      3 months ago

      Near rivers it has to contend with Himalayan Balsam, and the bees love that stuff too.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah I quite like the ol’ Himalayan balsam to be honest - very popular with the bumble bees. Gets a bad rap in the uk because it’s supposedly ‘invasive’, but I take rather a dim view of that kind of talk to be sure.

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          3 months ago

          They do destroy biodiversity but at least they are pretty and won’t fuck you up like Giant Hogweed.

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            3 months ago

            And you can eat it (as long as you don’t eat too much in case you fuck your kidneys)

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              Aye, this is the problem with a lot of invasive edibles. Too few people are interested in foraging and usually you can only eat so much foraged stuff.

              If everyone went out with tubs, bags and baskets on their days off and did a bit of foraging to make their diets a bit more varied and healthy then we might be able to make a dent in things like Himalayan Balsam and American Signal Crayfish. Realistically though we’d just have to limit foraging of easier to identify and prepare plants and fungi from easier to access areas.

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    3 months ago

    Apart from what others commented on these being two entirely different species, there might be other factors at play as well.

    Lianas and vines are pretty common and very diverse, especially in tropical forests. They are usually found as part of the upper canopy and if there is a tree fall, they manage to fill this gap pretty quickly. The trees grow more slowly, but will manage to establish themselves eventually, filling up that gap. But if you cut down an entire forest, trees have a much harder time to establish themselves because the whole ground is just covered in these fast growing lianas or vines. There are studies that look at exactly that, how lianas inhibit forest regrowth.

    So, how overgrown with lianas or vines a certain habitat is, is very much dependent on the disturbance of this habitat.

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    Maybe it’s just me, but the second one in my brain gets voiced by LazerPig to the backing of Rule Britannia