Unfortunately, Michigan has a long list of both plants and insects that are invasive. Here's what to be on the lookout for.
Moser, W. K., M. H. Hansen, and M. D. Nelson. 2008. The extent of selected non-native invasive plants on Missouri forestland. Pages 491-505 in Proc. of the 16th Central Hardwoods Forest Conference. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station....
As I was drinking my morning coffee and working on yesterday’s field notes, I noticed anotherCysteodemus wislizini(black bladder-bodied blister beetle) onTribulus terrestris(puncture vine) where I had collected a few on the same plants the night before. This one, however, was not only perc...
These two invasive pests have the greatest impact on your honey bee colony's health. August is when inspection, detection and management is critical to your bee's health and survival for the rest of the year. We'll be sharing important information about identification and control options. MONDA...
(a new addition to the list of species trapped), and the previously capturedStenocorus copei. This lifted my spirits a bit knowing that at least one trap had survived the human onslaught. The lift, however, was short lived when I approached the EtOH trap and found it lying on the ground...
Mortensen DA, Rauschert ESJ, Nord AN, Jones BP (2009) Forest roads facilitate the spread of invasive plants. Invasive Plant Science and Management 2:191–199 Article Google Scholar Nadeau LB, Vanden Born WH (1989) The root system of Canada thistle. Canadian Journal of Plant Sciences 69:1199...
ofLathyrusthat are native to North America butLathyrus latifoliusis native to parts of Europe and Northern Africa. This species made its way to American gardeners in the 1700’s and escaped. Now, they are a common wildflower throughout the country and is even declared an invasive species in ...
Margaret:So you said it’s from elsewhere; it’s invasive. So it doesn’t have any natural predator in the environment that it arrived in, in the Smokies and elsewhere where this tree was/is native. And so it got out of hand. ...
Acknowledgments Funding for R. Al-Chokhachy was in part through the U.S. Geological Survey Mendenhall Fellowship Program. We would like to thank the extensive list of summer field technicians who collected the data for these analyses and A. Sepulveda (U.S. Geological Survey) for reviewing and...