Top 10 Introduced species in your backyard?


I don’t mind the Asian House Geckos as they keep the spider population down in the house but I would be happy to lose the cockroaches.
The White Leaden tree known locally as Coffee Bush is something I will not tolerate in my garden as they are extremely difficult to pull out after a certain height and they spread.
Cane toads ate relatively recent ie in the past 5 years and one of the reasons we have a wander around at night to check for critters before we let the dogs out for a pee before bed. One of our dogs would want to play with them and I’d rather prevent a vet visit.

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I have a lot of observations around my house, haha.

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This isn’t 100% accurate since all of the observations I make near my home are obscured, but it’s the jist of it

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The same thing happens with my list.

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Here’s mine

The Garlic Mustard is really annoying in the summer to try and walk through.

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DESTROY IT!!! :boom: :boom: DOWN WITH ALL INVASIVES! :boom: :boom:

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But at least you can eat it!

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My personal favorites are the large yellow underwings, chukars, and ring-necked pheasants, all of which came from Europe and don’t even belong in America. I still think they’re cool anyways.

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I could live without any of them and in fact, with the exception of sumac, which grows on municipal land in front of my house and is managed by mowing all the root shoots and ivy, which i agressively manage where it does not annoy me, i kill all the other on sight by any means necessary.

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I’ve got 50 introduced species, which isn’t great. here are the top 10:

The catnip we appreciate because pollinators visit it abundantly

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The raspberries are marked as Native; why are they included in this list?

The house finch is also marked as native.

House Finch is native to the USA but not to minnesota, where we live. Maybe that’s why. The plant may have a similar explanation?

It seems to do the same thing for me (NC). I’m surprised the common house spider is marked as introduced for my location.

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