Emerald Ash Borer beetle putting all US Ash trees in jeopardy

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Pulsar

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Is isn't just trees.

Look up the zebra mussel.
The Gobi.
The Asian Carp.

The great lakes ecosystem has been absolutely raped and is continuing to be destroyed.
 
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Is isn't just trees.

Look up the zebra mussel.
The Gobi.
The Asian Carp.

The great lakes ecosystem has been absolutely raped and is continuing to be destroyed.

*just* trees?

If not for trees we wouldn't breathe, at all.

No, plants don't cut it, they produce more methane than O, we NEED trees to live in this world.
 

Lemon law

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Why play the mirror mirror on the wall which nation is stupidest of all game when its a giant world wide problem. And even worse, one nations stupidity falls on other nation.

As the world economy goes global, shit just happens.

The Darwin theory of evolution postulates evolution is a slow process, leaving a pile of plant and animal species vulnerable to threats suddenly never before encountered.
 

StageLeft

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http://ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/brown-marmorated-stink-bug

This is anther evil bug that was not native. We are fucked with this one. My sister's house was covered with these fuckers. I been lucky at my house never seen one yet. My parents and both sisters houses have them.
That's a nice one. Seems to be an equal-rights fruit/vegetable eater. In my limited experience virtually all pests at least in NY for fruit and vegetables attack the plant itself, not often the fruit, whether it be fungus or insects.

Another fun one has been the Japanese beetle, introduced into the US about 100 years ago and spreading around, now into Canada. Likes to feed on roses, but also grape leaves and many bean leaves. In my back yard they were virtually impossible to control without insecticide.
 

Moonbeam

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Bush could have saved the our ashes if he had funded research instead of starting an illegal war or the Supreme Coup hadn't stolen the election.
 

OutHouse

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you guys should see the devastation the pine beetle has done to the Colorado forest.
 

Jeff7

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If you look to introduce a predatory organism you just have to hope it doesn't come with its own side effects
Yeah; I think they did some of that in Australia. The cane toad comes to mind; it was introduced as a way of killing some pest insect, and I think there was also another animal that was introduced to deal with some other pest.
The cane toads ended up eating things other than the target insect, and now the problem is dealing with too many cane toads, which are eating various other things nearly unchecked.

We need something like The Simpson's suggestion of adding predators higher and higher on the food chain, until the final species in line simply freezes to death in winter.

Alternative: Introduce everything everywhere, and let the environment re-equalize itself.
 
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Possessed Freak

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MotF Bane

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Alternative: Introduce everything everywhere, and let the environment re-equalize itself.

Tigers with cinder blocks and scuba gear into the ocean. Bull sharks into freshwater ponds. Crocodiles into city parks. For great lulz!
 

WHAMPOM

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Not politics, but is news. It would seem that thanks to introduction of this beetle in the 1990s, the 7.5billion Ash trees in the US are at risk from this beetle, which infests and kills an ash tree within 2-3 years. It is a fast-spreading infestation and many states are now reporting seeing these things. These beetles threaten some portions of the lumber industry not to mention obviously the environment (that is a crap load of trees to die).

I culled most of this from wiki, but a local article was talking about a confirmed infestation in a hundred trees near me, plus earlier this year I saw the purple traps and wondered what they are.

Add oak wilt, the retreat of birch to North of the Great lakes and the loss of maple trees due to acid rain to that. Plus the detrimental effects of European earthworms on North American forest habitat. Now add this to the mix, a chestnut forest where the trees were left uncut developed resistence to the blight.
 
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Schadenfroh

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Tigers with cinder blocks and scuba gear into the ocean. Bull sharks into freshwater ponds. Crocodiles into city parks. For great lulz!

release some of those flies that place their eggs underneath your skin after they bite you.
 
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