Thanks :pray: to @Nezuko Which Flower Is Your Favorite and [image] Which Flower Is Your Favorite I have to admit that I love the meadows covered with creeping oxeye, even though it is considered weedy Thanks :pray: to @Nezuko and @jasonhernandez74 for inspiring this topic! :raised_hands: As …

This one’s my answer too even if it’s not that bad in Great Britain (yet?). Very pretty leaves, very pretty flowers that smell lovely, gorgeous bark. There’s a reason they were planted so much. For animals, rose-ringed parakeets - very abundant around London. It’s disputed whether they’re genuinely…

But the native gecko populations drop as much as I love Asian House Geckos because they keep the spider population down in my house, I think our native dtellas are cuter.

I make it very well known, both online and in real life, that I love every bird in the Genus Passer, so House and Eurasian Tree Sparrows for me. I always gleefully point out House Sparrow whenever I go out anywhere with other people. As for Eurasian Tree Sparrows, well… I travelled all the way to St…

I wouldn’t say that I “love” Chinese privet; it’s more like Chinese privet is a charmer. I know that it is a harmful invasive; but when I see it covered with fruits in the fall, some deeper instinct feels that sense of comfort that comes from being in the presence of abundance. To explain, there is…

For context, North America. Mute Swans are beautiful and elegant, and certainly exemplary parents. Water hyacinths (Eichhornia crassipes) are beautiful, but invasive in tropical locations they were brought to. Spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe) is so pretty, as is Queen Anne’s Lace (Daucus carot…

Asian swamp eels. Their pretty cool

The eurasian magpies are my favorites, but considered invasive here in Argeş. Almost nobody likes them here, buy I think they’re smart and social.

I doubt A. altissima alone was the cause of the dieback of the patch of trees. It probably had help from something else (droughts, invasive species of fungal pathogens, insects, improper forestry practices …, probably all of the above), and Ailanthus just finished them off. I am doing my PhD on t…

Invasive plant in the wider sense (just not-native and naturalised): Impatiens balfouri It is always nice to see it, It has interesting flowers and does not seem to be able to do any real damage. It does not form stands lake the other two invasive impatienses, there is just a clump or two in the gr…

[image] ljazz: I doubt A. altissima alone was the cause of the dieback of the patch of trees. It probably had help from something else (droughts, invasive species of fungal pathogens, insects, improper forestry practices …, probably all of the above), and Ailanthus just finished them off. I …

Confession time: Which invasive species do you secretly LOVE?

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