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Poison hemlock and wild parsnips are bad because they’re not native to Ohio, making them an invasive species crowding out native vegetation. Poison hemlock is often found in yards, roadsides ...
State officials announced a quarantine for six southwest Ohio counties to help contain the box tree moth, an invasive species. The quarantine follows similar measures in New York and Michigan in ...
Arachnophobes, beware: a giant invasive spider may make its way to Ohio. But they're not here yet. Trichonephila clavata , known commonly as Joro spiders, are a large, yellow breed of arachnid ...
This is a list of invasive species in North America.A species is regarded as invasive if it has been introduced by human action to a location, area, or region where it did not previously occur naturally (i.e., is not a native species), becomes capable of establishing a breeding population in the new location without further intervention by humans, and becomes a pest in the new location ...
Brook trout is a native fish species to the eastern United States and is known to prefer the cool, shaded streams of hemlock forests during spawning events. [20] Vulnerable animal populations are expected to diminish as a result of loss of hemlock habitat to the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid.
Kudzu is an invasive plant species in the United States, introduced from Asia with devastating environmental consequences, [1] earning it the nickname "the vine that ate the South". It has been spreading rapidly in the Southern United States , "easily outpacing the use of herbicide, spraying, and mowing, as well increasing the costs of these ...
Invasive honeysuckle bushes spread alongside Ohio's highways. The Ohio Department of transportation removes the invasive plant for good reasons. Invasive honeysuckle returns to Ohio, and why ODOT ...
The economic impacts of invasive species can be difficult to estimate especially when an invasive species does not affect economically important native species. This is partly because of the difficulty in determining the non-use value of native habitats damaged by invasive species and incomplete knowledge of the effects of all of the invasive species present in the U.S. Estimates for the ...