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About half of the trees in a New England forest are "invasive." They've been here so long someone like me doesn't even know what's natural and what isn't. Eart
by gwbas1c 5y ago
About half of the trees in a New England forest are "invasive." They've been here so long someone like me doesn't even know what's natural and what isn't.
Earthworms are also invasive in New England. They're everywhere, ubiquitous, and apparently the natural forest doesn't have them.
- kibwen 5y agoEarthworms would have once been native to New England, they were just killed by the advancing glaciers of the pleistocene epoch, which ended 12,000 years ago. They've been advancing northward slowly ever since (though other species were brought by colonists).