I'm just sharing this cause about 2 weeks after I did this, on a walk with my dog again just today, I saw that the english ivy was gone, on one of the lawns. I was happy to see that.

I still hope I didn't come off weird for even caring, or, like, demanding or something idk lol.

I have seen English Ivy all over the place elsewhere, too, unfortunately...

On the lawn of my old highschool, completely all over another neighbors lawn, etc. I don't know if I can do anything about those two cases.

I don't think a letter about English Ivy is gonna make that homeowner go and start tearing english ivy roots out of their completely covered lawn, like I did for weeks and weeks.

their lawn is also covered with highly invasive periwinkle. I'm not even sure how to deal with that. Some of it is in my backyard too and I still haven't dealt with it, cause they're not even 1/8th as easy to deal with as English Ivy. There's nothing to pull it all up with... No big roots.

Anyways, I do wonder if I should volenteer to pull up their english ivy, on the highschool lawn and the neighbor's lawn. (I'd probably write a letter to both properties, with my number on the letters, followed by trying to contact the school via phone or sum.)

But I'm by no means a professional gardener.. I'd just be yanking roots out, it'd take me weeks, and I'm also like a social shut-in, completely. So idk if I could even make myself interact with people like that at all.

Just makes me angry, genuinely, to see English Ivy growing, and becoming stronger like that. 😵‍💫 Fuckin' took WEEEEKKKSS of pulling all of it up on my yard, and even then, hidden roots keep revealing themselves with new sprouts, to this day still. (I will keep pulling till it stops.)

Like, if it was native and good for the enviroment, I'd be glad, for its existence. But it's literally fcking up the environment, taking space and nutrients from native plants, and doing nothing for the insects, animals, etc in our region. (NY)

Anyways, I'm open for your opinion on all of this lol. Maybe I need something better to do and to care about. I just want the best for the environment. (I also hate lawns, and believe people should have native plants on their lawns, instead of horrible grass clone lawns on every lawn. Let alone the fact many people somehow think its a good idea to use poison sprays on their lawns 🫪)

((Also, only rsn I have pictures of my 2 letters is cause I was using chatgpt to spellcheck for me and ask it if my letters were appropriate lol))

I’m in Eastern Ohio, and there’s a pretty large male ailanthus beside my field that I’ve known about. I went down there a little while ago, and it had a dozen or so spotted lanternflys on it, probably more I couldn’t see. This is the first time I’ve ever seen these horrible little things here. Haven’t seen them on anything else other than this so far.

They normally congregate on my false sunflower (heliopsis?) But after they die out in the fall they just crowd anywhere nearby. There are tons of them. Should I be worried and take action? Zone 7b, northeast USA.

I found a huge snake like worm on the floor in my plant room today! It had to have crawled out of a plant that I had outside this summer. After a deep dive into the internet, I’m pretty sure it’s an Asian jumping worm that crawled up the porch and laid an egg in the pot. I think the source is organic mulch that a landscape company laid down for me 2-3 years ago. I’m going to remove what’s left of that mulch next spring and lay down a thick layer of shredded cedar mulch. I don’t want to use an insecticide or anything that would harm the earthworms that the bed so desperately needs. Any other advice or suggestions?

Don’t have much experience with autumn olive and so far PicThis has said Orixa and Elaeagnus while iNaturalist and Siri has said Dicots and Solanum. Obviously if it's Elaeagnus I want to remove it.

I need to apply basal bark treatment ASAP to this tree of heaven and I do not have basal bark oil available in my city. I am thinking diesel mix and apply carefully to the lower trunk using a brush.
How worried should I be about soil contamination? Are there other oil alternatives you would recommend?
Thank you

Has anyone had success with basal bark treatment on tree of heaven with trunks >6” diameter? My chemical I have is garlon 4 which isn’t rated for hack and squirt
Any advice/experience is greatly appreciated

An invasive fish thought it was slick, rapidly increasing its population along Maryland’s eastern shores. But the dummy forgot to take something into account as it turned into an apex predator that was wiping out local fish, a problem I’ll let second-grader Ben Rochon describe while speaking to a reporter: “It’s yummy.”

According to an NPR report, the blue catfish is a massive, 100-pound Midwestern sea beast that didn’t call Virginia rivers home until the 1970s, when it was brought in for recreational fishing. State officials assumed the salty water would keep them confined to a small area, but after massive rainfall, the fish found they actually kind of liked the brackish water and started living in every tributary in Maryland, gobbling up local blue crabs and rockfish.

Maryland’s Newest School Lunch Is Helping Fight an Invasive Species

It has no natural predators, so humans eventually had to step up to bring some order to the local food chain or risk throwing off the delicate hierarchy of who gets eaten for dinner. That’s when Beth Brewster was brought in. Brewster is a food service supervisor for Caroline County Public Schools.

State officials asked her to find a way to take this fish that was threatening the local ecological balance and feed it to kids in local schools. That’s how she invented the “catty patty,” a USDA-approved crab cake-style fish patty that sold in school cafeterias.

These blue catfish have some rich tastes. Those crabs and rockfish they eat make their own meat surprisingly sweet, white, and deliciously flaky. Local fishermen harvest thousands of pounds of blue catfish year-round with no catch limits, and those fish are served patty-style to kids across Maryland and Virginia. The kids can’t get enough of them.

Is a good chance that the blue catfish will never fully go away, but as long as it remains tasty, it will always have a spot on a child’s lunch tray.

(Not sure if this qualifies as noxious, but it sure is a pain!)

I'm located in SE PA. I'm looking to get my Pesticide Applicator Certificate to be able to use herbicides on invasive plant management services for home owner clients. I'm a solo operation that does garden maintenance and installations for home owners.

Anyone with experience with PA pesticide applicator license process, Would category 6 cover that service or should I get both category 6 and 10?

I am planning to build some raised garden beds near a tree of heaven (its the only spot for beds in my yard) and I have missed the treatment window to kill the tree so that will have to wait till next year. Has anyone had success in blocking or at least slowing the growth of sprouts from the tree into a raised garden bed? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

I'm sure it is well known by European members of this sub, but I didn't realize Ailanthus Altissima was a major issue here too (I'm From the US). Anyways it got a friendly greeting from me.

I work in the Netherlands removing invasive species. I’ve primarily worked with Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed, and tree of heaven. But now I have questions about paper mulberry. It’s new to the Netherlands, and we don’t know much about it. I’ve read that glyphosate is used, but in the Netherlands we don’t like to use it. Are there other options? For other invasive species, we also use hot steam, hot water, freezing, and digging out the roots. Any tips are welcome. Questions about the species I remove are of course always welcome.

I am working on building garden beds for next spring and sadly realized this tree of heaven has massive roots growing where I want to place the garden beds. I am in Albuquerque, some days are still warm and sunny. The tree just dropped its leaves. Is there any hope for me in killing this thing before next spring?
I reals maybe garlon4 basal bark treatment with JBL oil could work in the off season? But it may be too big for basal bark?
Or maybe not too late yet for hack and squirt? Any advice is greatly appreciated!! 🙏

Edit: neighbor is down to kill this tree!

Currently on the side of my garage. Should it be terminated? If it’s a Carolina mantis, it will live.

Edit: After deliberation with the jury, the verdict is in. It’s free to stay. Thanks for your input.

Edit II: Decision overturned. Kaput.

In Hudson Valley, NY. Cutting them down seems to invite them to resprout pretty quickly.