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So, what you're saying is that honeybees are facilitating the spread of invasive plants in North America? Seems like a definite negative.
by pfdietz 7mo ago
So, what you're saying is that honeybees are facilitating the spread of invasive plants in North America? Seems like a definite negative.
- chasil 7mo agoThose ships have literally sailed, centuries ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange
- pfdietz 7mo agoInvasives are an ongoing and escalating problem.
- mattmaroon 7mo agoWhich is solid evidence that honey bees have little to do with the problem.
- pfdietz 7mo agoWhat a non sequitur.
- adolph 7mo agoSee also earthworms facilitating spread of invasives: Invasive species of earthworms from the suborder Lumbricina have been expanding their range in North America. . . . Their introduction to North America has had marked effects on the nutrient cycles and soil profiles in temperate forests. . . . Some species of trees and other plants may be incapable of surviving such changes in available nutrients. This change in the plant diversity in turn affects other organisms and often leads to increased invasions of other exotic species as well as overall forest decline. They are considered one of the most invasive animals in the Midwestern United States along with feral swine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_earthworms_of_North_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_earthworms_of_North_A...