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The Indiana Dunes is an area of land beside Lake Michigan, in the State of Indiana, United States. It includes Indiana Dunes National Park and Indiana Dunes State Park. Non-native plant species, specifically invasive species, have colonized that area. Invasive plants are those plants that aggressively spread throughout an area and out-compete ...
For the past two years, Hoosier National Forest staff and a nonprofit group dedicated to identifying and removing invasive plants have been trekking through Indiana's only wilderness mapping where ...
Garlic mustard is one of the first plants to appear in the spring and has earned top rank as one of the states worst invasive plants by the Indiana Invasive Species Council.
The invasive Asian needle ant, Brachyponera chinensis, is the first ant in Indiana to have a stinger and reside in people's homes. Forget giant spiders, Indiana has a new invasive species and its ...
The emerald ash borer, or EAB, is an invasive species to the watershed preserve. The insect is highly destructive to ash trees, a genus which includes four species native to Indiana. EAB infestation was first discovered in 2010, and by 2012 all ash trees were found to have markings from the insect. [5]
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 ...
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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 ...