Not The Grey Variety
September 20, 2007 3:23 AM Subscribe
I know exactly what you mean. These guys bring down property values as soon as they move in.
posted by chuckdarwin at 3:48 AM on September 20, 2007
posted by chuckdarwin at 3:48 AM on September 20, 2007
Fear the evil aliens. The goat, the cat and the dreadful, dreadful rabbit.
Do you Americans want Kangaroos? They're really pretty neat. Someone should introduce them there and in Africa, and somewhere in Eurasia.
posted by sien at 3:50 AM on September 20, 2007
Do you Americans want Kangaroos? They're really pretty neat. Someone should introduce them there and in Africa, and somewhere in Eurasia.
posted by sien at 3:50 AM on September 20, 2007
I don't know; can you lock them in a little cage so they're really tender? VEAL KANGAROOS!
They'd sell. I'm sure of it.
posted by chuckdarwin at 3:55 AM on September 20, 2007
They'd sell. I'm sure of it.
posted by chuckdarwin at 3:55 AM on September 20, 2007
I know exactly what you mean.
Uh, no you don't. I am a giant snail.
posted by srboisvert at 3:56 AM on September 20, 2007 [2 favorites]
Uh, no you don't. I am a giant snail.
posted by srboisvert at 3:56 AM on September 20, 2007 [2 favorites]
Kangaroos? Send us koalas.
posted by kingfisher, his musclebound cat at 4:15 AM on September 20, 2007
posted by kingfisher, his musclebound cat at 4:15 AM on September 20, 2007
Koalas are actually rather shy and unfriendly. I'd prefer kangaroos, thanks.
posted by needs more cowbell at 4:32 AM on September 20, 2007
posted by needs more cowbell at 4:32 AM on September 20, 2007
I'm a little disappointed by this post.
No one even mentions the Mars Invaders, Body Snatchers,
Independence Day aliens. Now those were some real scary invasive alien species.
posted by Chocomog at 4:34 AM on September 20, 2007
No one even mentions the Mars Invaders, Body Snatchers,
Independence Day aliens. Now those were some real scary invasive alien species.
posted by Chocomog at 4:34 AM on September 20, 2007
They forgot the worst one of all - homo something.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 4:47 AM on September 20, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by Kirth Gerson at 4:47 AM on September 20, 2007 [1 favorite]
Don't forget the mice with a hankering for a hunk of pork.
posted by itchylick at 4:57 AM on September 20, 2007
posted by itchylick at 4:57 AM on September 20, 2007
Hmm, yes, a quick scan of the list and I see all these:
Mimosa pigra
Rattus rattus
Mus musculus
Sus scrofa
Vulpes vulpes
Bufo marinus
Eichhornia crassipes
Imperata cylindrica
Lantana camara
That we have around here. I'm sure we've got more of them too, if I was more thorough.
posted by Jimbob at 5:00 AM on September 20, 2007
Mimosa pigra
Rattus rattus
Mus musculus
Sus scrofa
Vulpes vulpes
Bufo marinus
Eichhornia crassipes
Imperata cylindrica
Lantana camara
That we have around here. I'm sure we've got more of them too, if I was more thorough.
posted by Jimbob at 5:00 AM on September 20, 2007
Couldn't see carp or cane toads mentioned though.
posted by kisch mokusch at 5:09 AM on September 20, 2007
posted by kisch mokusch at 5:09 AM on September 20, 2007
Hmm? They're both there, kisch mokusch. Bufo marinus and Cyprinus carpio .
posted by Jimbob at 5:16 AM on September 20, 2007
posted by Jimbob at 5:16 AM on September 20, 2007
Well I'll be damned. I knew Mosquito Fish seemed too good to be true.
posted by redteam at 5:48 AM on September 20, 2007
posted by redteam at 5:48 AM on September 20, 2007
Screw the koalas. What the US needs is kookaburras. Oh, and some gum trees.
posted by FelliniBlank at 5:59 AM on September 20, 2007
posted by FelliniBlank at 5:59 AM on September 20, 2007
Kookaburra sits on the telephone wire...
Screw the koalas. What the US needs is kookaburras. Oh, and some gum trees.
Well I understand you do have some gum trees, but more importantly you have our paperbarks taking over your swamps down in Florida. About time we exported one of our species to do damage somewhere else...
posted by Jimbob at 6:06 AM on September 20, 2007
Screw the koalas. What the US needs is kookaburras. Oh, and some gum trees.
Well I understand you do have some gum trees, but more importantly you have our paperbarks taking over your swamps down in Florida. About time we exported one of our species to do damage somewhere else...
posted by Jimbob at 6:06 AM on September 20, 2007
Obviously, this list was compiled by Tribbles to throw us all off the scent.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 6:10 AM on September 20, 2007
posted by PeterMcDermott at 6:10 AM on September 20, 2007
Do you Americans want Kangaroos? They're really pretty neat.
Derbyshire's feral wallabies.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 6:25 AM on September 20, 2007
Derbyshire's feral wallabies.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 6:25 AM on September 20, 2007
Is kudzu mentioned? Because kudzu is terrifying.
posted by Anonymous at 6:53 AM on September 20, 2007
posted by Anonymous at 6:53 AM on September 20, 2007
Well I understand you do have some gum trees, but more importantly you have our paperbarks taking over your swamps down in Florida. About time we exported one of our species to do damage somewhere else...
Bleaurgh. We don't want 'em. Those damn trees (we call them melaleuca trees here) just cannot die. They propagate themselves faster than any human effort can get rid of them. They are a menace, and, to make it even worse, completely useless for anything other than sucking up water.
My understanding is that early developers brought them in to dry the whole of south Florida, in an effort to convert the vast Everglades into one giant swath of nice dry buildable land. Thank goodness that never happened to the extent that they hoped it would. However the legacy of the melaleuca lives on, to taunt us all.
posted by contessa at 6:54 AM on September 20, 2007
Bleaurgh. We don't want 'em. Those damn trees (we call them melaleuca trees here) just cannot die. They propagate themselves faster than any human effort can get rid of them. They are a menace, and, to make it even worse, completely useless for anything other than sucking up water.
My understanding is that early developers brought them in to dry the whole of south Florida, in an effort to convert the vast Everglades into one giant swath of nice dry buildable land. Thank goodness that never happened to the extent that they hoped it would. However the legacy of the melaleuca lives on, to taunt us all.
posted by contessa at 6:54 AM on September 20, 2007
jimbob: it's on the list of the 100 worst from the first link, too.
posted by contessa at 6:56 AM on September 20, 2007
posted by contessa at 6:56 AM on September 20, 2007
Ivy (Hedera helix) is on the list. I've always been a little suspicious of the so-called 'Ivy League'.
posted by pracowity at 7:06 AM on September 20, 2007
posted by pracowity at 7:06 AM on September 20, 2007
For my Environmental Ethics class, I spent about 12 hours last week clearing invasive species from a local nature conservancy. Honeysuckle's some rough shit.
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:15 AM on September 20, 2007
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:15 AM on September 20, 2007
Unless I missed it, there was a link to a site that mentions the feral cat, but no link to their own overall list of 95 sepecies.
It has some interesting entries such as a mute swan and, as Kirth Gerson mentioned here, humans.
posted by eye of newt at 8:12 AM on September 20, 2007
It has some interesting entries such as a mute swan and, as Kirth Gerson mentioned here, humans.
posted by eye of newt at 8:12 AM on September 20, 2007
Oh man, don't get me started on the damn tiger mosquitoes. I remember in the 1980s here in Texas that mosquitoes were only something that came out during the evening hours. I'd like to find out who imported those tires into Houston (or who shipped them) and wring their necks.
posted by antipasta_explosion at 8:23 AM on September 20, 2007
posted by antipasta_explosion at 8:23 AM on September 20, 2007
Goddamn melaleuca. It likes when you try to burn it.
posted by casarkos at 8:25 AM on September 20, 2007 [2 favorites]
posted by casarkos at 8:25 AM on September 20, 2007 [2 favorites]
Kudzu sometimes eats babies.
posted by shakespeherian at 9:15 AM on September 20, 2007
posted by shakespeherian at 9:15 AM on September 20, 2007
Once as a kid in Alabama, I rode my bike down to a little pond where we used to skinny dip and I leaned my bike against a pole next to a kudzu covered field. I swam for a while and then went back to my bike only to discover that the kudzu had already consumed it.
posted by Pollomacho at 9:25 AM on September 20, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by Pollomacho at 9:25 AM on September 20, 2007 [1 favorite]
I confess to being slightly proud of Australia's menacing flora. Our fauna (modulo snakes & spiders) are a bunch of fuzzy evolutionary throwbacks that get their arses kicked by housecats, but the plants are mostly death with leaves on.
posted by zamboni at 9:30 AM on September 20, 2007
posted by zamboni at 9:30 AM on September 20, 2007
zamboni, you're only adding more data to my nascent theory that everything from Australia is either invasive or poisonous. Or both, as in the case of backpackers.
posted by contessa at 9:40 AM on September 20, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by contessa at 9:40 AM on September 20, 2007 [1 favorite]
I do not like koalas.
If they all die there will be more room for the panthers and all the other hard animals.
posted by quin at 10:35 AM on September 20, 2007
If they all die there will be more room for the panthers and all the other hard animals.
posted by quin at 10:35 AM on September 20, 2007
No honeysuckle listed in the top 100. Huh.
This one for the win, though:
On the Galapagos, it eats the hatchlings of tortoises and attacks the eyes and cloacae of the adult tortoises. It is considered to be perhaps the greatest ant species threat in the Pacific.
Little fire ant.
posted by Tehanu at 11:34 AM on September 20, 2007
This one for the win, though:
On the Galapagos, it eats the hatchlings of tortoises and attacks the eyes and cloacae of the adult tortoises. It is considered to be perhaps the greatest ant species threat in the Pacific.
Little fire ant.
posted by Tehanu at 11:34 AM on September 20, 2007
Felis Catus... damn, I was invaded by two of those 12 years ago, and I still can't get rid of them!
The house cat (Felis catus) was domesticated in the eastern Mediterranean c. 3000 years ago. Considering the extent to which cats are valued as pets, it is not surprising that they have since been translocated by humans to almost all parts of the world. Notable predators, cats threaten native birdlife and other fauna, especially in island groups such as those found in the Pacific.
And I'm with you on the kudzu, Jimbob. Scary as fuck.
posted by kimdog at 11:41 AM on September 20, 2007
The house cat (Felis catus) was domesticated in the eastern Mediterranean c. 3000 years ago. Considering the extent to which cats are valued as pets, it is not surprising that they have since been translocated by humans to almost all parts of the world. Notable predators, cats threaten native birdlife and other fauna, especially in island groups such as those found in the Pacific.
And I'm with you on the kudzu, Jimbob. Scary as fuck.
posted by kimdog at 11:41 AM on September 20, 2007
Hmm? They're both there, kisch mokusch. Bufo marinus and Cyprinus carpio .
I did read through the list, I swear! I don't know how I missed them (although that list doesn't always mention which countries are being affected, I guess I was looking for mentions of Australia).
posted by kisch mokusch at 2:06 PM on September 20, 2007
I did read through the list, I swear! I don't know how I missed them (although that list doesn't always mention which countries are being affected, I guess I was looking for mentions of Australia).
posted by kisch mokusch at 2:06 PM on September 20, 2007
Cool. Lessee. In my neck of the woods, the San Francisco Bay Area and the California North Coast, we've got Arundo, jubata grass (which they don't list), spartina, gorse, and a whole lot more.
Oh, here's a cool site to ID North American invasives. Also, even if you live somewhere else, check out the California Weed-Workers* Handbook.
*No, not that kind of California weed.
posted by salvia at 5:51 PM on September 20, 2007
Oh, here's a cool site to ID North American invasives. Also, even if you live somewhere else, check out the California Weed-Workers* Handbook.
*No, not that kind of California weed.
posted by salvia at 5:51 PM on September 20, 2007
No god damned Eucalyptus huh.
posted by BrotherCaine at 2:08 AM on September 21, 2007
posted by BrotherCaine at 2:08 AM on September 21, 2007
Kudzu sometimes eats babies.
Slowly, when the kids are too young to crawl fast. Parents, keep an eye out. In fact, once, on a field trip in a slow bus...
posted by Tehanu at 2:32 PM on September 21, 2007
Slowly, when the kids are too young to crawl fast. Parents, keep an eye out. In fact, once, on a field trip in a slow bus...
posted by Tehanu at 2:32 PM on September 21, 2007
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