Zebra Mussels, Honeysuckle, and Spotted Lanternflies! - Rolling Invasive Species thread

Thanks for the thread!

So they seem to be drawn to tall buildings... The largest swarms always appear to be at the foot of a high-rise, regardless of the amount of trees nearby.

We were just out, and at the intersection, at the base of a 17 story tall building, there were dozens, but directly and diagonally across the street there were only a couple dead smashed ones. Buildings were 1-3 stories.

Maybe they hit the tall buildings as they glide, and fall to the base?

They may just be attracted to tall buildings. But yeah they certainly love to congregate there.

On August 23, park biologists conducted a follow up rotenone treatment of Baker Lake to ensure the removal of its former non-native trout inhabitants in preparation for introducing Bonneville cutthroat trout next summer. pic.twitter.com/16hiF2jDIX

— Great Basin NPS (@GreatBasinNPS) October 24, 2022

crossposted from the thread i needlessly started.

you have to hand it to them though, that is pretty fucking cutthroat

Have the lanternflies died out? I feel like I'm seeing a lot less of them now that the weather is cooling off (it's been in the low to mid 50s near me the past couple of weeks).

har har xp

Xpost In the fall they go up trees and lay their eggs and then die.

Yeah, gotta keep an eye out for egg masses now.

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I thought this was an interesting case: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/06/canadia-wild-horses-stable-island

(p bad article though, just a series of back-and-forth quotes with no details about what effects the horses may be having)

Similar situation to the burros in the Southwestern US. Abandoned work animals that miners used, and a hundred years later they're still there, tearing up the native vegetation.

There's a spring in Death Valley where they trap the wandering burros, but they don't kill them.. there's some kind of adoption program. I saw a truckload of them being hauled out, they didn't look too pleased

Saline Warm Spring, I think (I've been there). I was hoping they'd at least do a trap/neuter/release program there, with the "release" part being optional.

you think there are burros that would choose to stay in the program?

As in, adopted by someone that'll keep them on their own land.