Nah it’s pretty intent on covering the whole of England too tbh. Good for the bees in September tho ☺️
Near rivers it has to contend with Himalayan Balsam, and the bees love that stuff too.
Yeah I quite like the ol’ Himalayan balsam to be honest - very popular with the bumble bees. Gets a bad rap in the uk because it’s supposedly ‘invasive’, but I take rather a dim view of that kind of talk to be sure.
They do destroy biodiversity but at least they are pretty and won't fuck you up like Giant Hogweed.
Was thinking the same thing; I've never seen English ivy take over an area like this
english taking credit for an asian achievement
everthing's was as expected
It doesn't have the same pests and diseases as in Europe to keep it in check.
Seems a bit unnecessary when you could just dress the ivy up like schoolkids and the yanks would wipe it out in a week
(Yes, we're going to keep making these jokes until yous apathetic removed DO SOMETHING)
Some, like the ivy aphid are already in North America, but I'm not sure how much of a dent it actually makes. There's great precedent for successful introduction of biocontrol agents for other invasive species. There's also great precedent for catastrophic failures(especially in instances where there's a native close relative of a target species), so it's definitely something that needs to be very carefully explored and not to be done haphazardly.
