ReimTime said:
Zappykins said:
There would be no more aphids, mustang horses, fire ants, lady bugs, Japanese beetles, and honeybees in North America! It's hard to imagine how much stuff would grow here without those dang aphids. They suck the life out of young growing plants. And those Japanese Beetles do so much damage to the east coast of NA.
The worst example I can think of is one of the now uninhabited Hawaiian Islands that let rats loose and they ate so much of the trees (Sandalwood) that storms were able to wipe out enough of the island that people can't live there anymore.
I love bunny rabbits, but I get that Australia doesn’t benefit from all the wild ones.
To answer the orginal question - sometimes, but you have to be very selective. The results can be devistating. Like how they killed all the wolves in Yellowstone, and if they had not put them back all the forest would have gone. All the beavers would be gone. Which would cause massive floodings downstream - which is much of the USA.
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Yea some of those species are harsh; especially the Japanese beetles. But we can keep the honeybees; I like them! I meant invasive as in having a negative impact on an ecosystem, and not necessarily just introduced
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Yea, I think we would proably keep honeybees in North and South America. There are some natives ones that make some honey, but Honey Bees do it best!
Although, I wonder if their is some ant nector or something we haven't tried yet that is delicous.
Have you tried local honey from a farmer's market?
Also, I have a hive of bees try to move into my apartment. I was like what's that noise? Then saw the swarm. That was an excieting day.
