Comments on: Invaders And Natives http://frogparade.com/2009/04/invaders-and-natives/ We like it here! One German and one American translating Los Angeles for the World. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:30:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Petra http://frogparade.com/2009/04/invaders-and-natives/comment-page-1/#comment-510 Petra Tue, 12 May 2009 20:09:11 +0000 http://frogparade.com/?p=571#comment-510 Oh, oh, kudzu - that's the stuff you can watch growing, yes? Well, just for once our climatic zone is good for something - kudzu does not like it here. Not enough rain, not humid enough; and boy, are we glad about that! We do have a certain amount of hydrilla here and there, but not enough to call it really a pest. Oh, oh, kudzu – that’s the stuff you can watch growing, yes? Well, just for once our climatic zone is good for something – kudzu does not like it here. Not enough rain, not humid enough; and boy, are we glad about that!

We do have a certain amount of hydrilla here and there, but not enough to call it really a pest.

]]> By: Karen http://frogparade.com/2009/04/invaders-and-natives/comment-page-1/#comment-509 Karen Tue, 12 May 2009 00:42:32 +0000 http://frogparade.com/?p=571#comment-509 We did the same in this country with hydrilla, kudzu, and some imported fish (I can't remember the name). We did the same in this country with hydrilla, kudzu, and some imported fish (I can’t remember the name).

]]> By: Petra http://frogparade.com/2009/04/invaders-and-natives/comment-page-1/#comment-508 Petra Mon, 11 May 2009 21:35:16 +0000 http://frogparade.com/?p=571#comment-508 Yes, man is good at screwing nature. One very, very bad example are the Everglades. Florida is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get rid of Melaleuca quinquenervia, a tree native to Australia which was imported to South Florida at the end of the 19th century. It was imported because it soaks up water... A good article about this fight can be read here: http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:BdHgn7N29AAJ:www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2004/2004-11-02-01.asp+invasive+trees+florida&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Yes, man is good at screwing nature.

One very, very bad example are the Everglades. Florida is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get rid of Melaleuca quinquenervia, a tree native to Australia which was imported to South Florida at the end of the 19th century. It was imported because it soaks up water…

A good article about this fight can be read here:

http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:BdHgn7N29AAJ:www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2004/2004-11-02-01.asp+invasive+trees+florida&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

]]> By: Karen http://frogparade.com/2009/04/invaders-and-natives/comment-page-1/#comment-507 Karen Mon, 11 May 2009 21:00:04 +0000 http://frogparade.com/?p=571#comment-507 I didn't know that about the ice plant. How often we screw up when we mess with nature. I didn’t know that about the ice plant. How often we screw up when we mess with nature.

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