http://www.state.hi.us/dlnr/dofaw/ho...pecieslist.htm
Did you know that many of our popular yard plants are actually considered invasive species, including:
white ginger, yellow ginger, kahili ginger, lantana, mock orange, strawberry guava, night blooming jasmine, pampas grass,California pepper tree, ironwood.
I was surprised by the full list (see the link). I’ve had many of those plants over the years in my yards. And so this lead me to check out an invasive animal list, where I learned that just under a dozen Brown Tree Snakes have been collected in the last two decades in Hawaii, having fallen out of the wheel-wells of incoming planes. Why the concern? Because we don’t want to become like Guam, which has around 13,000 snakes per square mile. Yikes!
http://www.explorebiodiversity.com/H...%20threats.htm
Did you know that many of our popular yard plants are actually considered invasive species, including:
white ginger, yellow ginger, kahili ginger, lantana, mock orange, strawberry guava, night blooming jasmine, pampas grass,California pepper tree, ironwood.
I was surprised by the full list (see the link). I’ve had many of those plants over the years in my yards. And so this lead me to check out an invasive animal list, where I learned that just under a dozen Brown Tree Snakes have been collected in the last two decades in Hawaii, having fallen out of the wheel-wells of incoming planes. Why the concern? Because we don’t want to become like Guam, which has around 13,000 snakes per square mile. Yikes!
http://www.explorebiodiversity.com/H...%20threats.htm
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