Invasive species welcome..

[Ken L]

Not extinct but it'd be nice to see a water vole once in a while.

Edited July 25, 2017 by Ken L

[Phone]

All,

 

I personally am at W A R. Do you have Japanese beetles? Or, how about our dasterdly fire ants?

 

You can have all of mine

 

Phone

[Ken L]

No and no. We do have Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed, buddleia and Himalayan balsam. The last two are relatively benign although they do outcompete natives. The first two not so benign.

We also have grey squirrels, Canada geese and signal crayfish that are a problem and mandarin ducks, egrets and edible dormice that aren't.

[chesters1]

No and no. We do have Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed, buddleia and Himalayan balsam. The last two are relatively benign although they do outcompete natives. The first two not so benign.

We also have grey squirrels, Canada geese and signal crayfish that are a problem and mandarin ducks, egrets and edible dormice that aren't.

Interesting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduced_species_of_the_British_Isles#Mammals

Didnt spot honey bee

 

Heres a misinformed one ,cows are quite safe with ragwort its horses that get ill or worse

https://blog.fantasticgardeners.co.uk/criminal-plants-in-the-uk/

 

'Criminality' is in the eye of the beholder the most ragwort i see is on council land and roadsides which then seed fields around them

Edited July 26, 2017 by chesters1

[corydoras]

Yeah but the plague is far too indiscriminate and hard to control, reintroduction of bears & wolves etc would cull the slower and more stupid members of the population.

http://cvi.asm.org/content/14/9/1235.long

Streptomycin.

Gentamicin.

 

 

It does not matter how smart one is or how fast one can run, one cannot outrun a bear of any species or a wolf.

[chesters1]

http://cvi.asm.org/content/14/9/1235.long

Streptomycin.

Gentamicin.

 

 

It does not matter how smart one is or how fast one can run, one cannot outrun a bear of any species or a wolf.

This chap was lucky on two counts

Edited August 16, 2017 by chesters1

[chesters1]

If it was real?

He seemed not in the slightest breathless ,just seeing a bear would have me borderline heart attach especially in bourne woods

Edited August 16, 2017 by chesters1

[Ken L]

It does not matter how smart one is or how fast one can run, one cannot outrun a bear of any species or a wolf.

Fortunately, you don't have to. You only have to outrun the person you're with.

[chesters1]

Fortunately, you don't have to. You only have to outrun the person you're with.

People know other people in real life

[corydoras]

Fortunately, you don't have to. You only have to outrun the person you're with.

I have my doubts that that works with bear, I'd bet on it not working with a pack of wooluf.