IS and Japanese Knotweed....

One of the best hijacked threads I've read on here for ages!
Started out using an horticultural analogy for ISIS, and straight away just took the horticulture route (root)!

 

Yes and no
There was an attempt to point out the parallels between the two. Misunderstanding of the complexity and fear of the foreigner being common to both.

 

Personally I found your 'serving' of the original poster both entertaining and educational.

 

Japanese Knotweed, the future! Have to say I don't particularly like the stuff, a devil to get rid of on sites and some companies are making a killing. Seen it in a few woods as well, must get fly tipped by some goons.

My personal vegist hatred is reserved for Himalayan Balsam if thats what it is. It seems to be spreading along river banks and wetlands over the last few years where I have been walking, it has a horrible saccharin/fabric conditioner smell and looks rubbish with shitty pink flowers. Oh and I hate Bracken as well, smothers the biberries and heather on the moors.

 

That stuff is everywhere. Taken over down at Worsbrough Res.

 

It does indeed and it produces 10 times more nectar than any native species.
So its great news for bees. (which is another really complicated story)

 

They drained Worsbrough Res in the summer. Not fully, about half way, some maintenance that needed doing with the overflow or summat. Where the water had receded the banks were littered with thousands and thousands of fresh water mussels the size of your hand and bigger. No point to that story other than I'd never seen one before and then I was confronted with more than I thought one Res could possibly sustain. Are they native or dirty foreigners?

 

There are both native and introduced freshwater mussels (there is a dirty invasive alien ones called the zebra mussel). The native pearl mussel is now very rare. Its decline is nothing to do with the introduced species, its more a result of over fishing and pollution. Plus it has a really complex life history in which the larval stage lives in the gills of fish. So its suffers when trout numbers fall.
But its not really my area.

 

There was no attempt, it was done and you did or said absolutely nothing to to change my view. You still believe your side even though you admitted the other. My point still stands you have to keep checks on species on a regular basis in your case gardening or your dandelions will take over .

 

they were probably Swan Mussels in worsboro res as these tend to live in lakes and slower moving water

 

another species that is suffering because of bloody foreigners is our freshwater crayfish,our native one has been hammered by the north american one because the latter is not only bigger and more powerful,it also carries disease which kills our native one off as it has no immunity against it.

 

Yes Manxy you are absolutely correct. My bad. Everywhere needs to be gardened, otherwise we would just get wilderness and wild animals all over the place and we can’t be having that, horrid stuff. The world would be a truly dreadful place if it was not for use humans keeping it all nice and beautiful like.

 

Can't see the wood for the trees gogher, I was also counting humans in that, which was indeed the first point. The Metaphor obviously went straight over your heed. Passport /border control which for a number of years has been baba. Surely you can see you need control checks on your herbatious borders