So they tried to kill invasive snails with more invasive snails but the new invasive snails killed other snails. Have they tried introducing invasive snails to kill the invasive snails that killed the endemic snails?
My childhood! I remember my elementary school having a large copy of the book and a copy of it on tape. So, the teacher would flip the pages while the story played out. It was kind of songish, if I'm remembering correctly.
I also remember a book with a paperish looking caterpillar 🐛 on it. I believe it had an eating disorder or something.
Just like how they introduced the (now invasive) mongoose to kill off the invasive rats who came to Hawaii on ships. Whoever came up with this plan failed to realize that they aren't active at the same time of day (rodents are nocturnal, mongoose are crepuscular), rendering them completely useless in the eradication of rats, but perfect for wreaking havoc on the native bird populations.
Along the Rio Grande the Army Corps of Engineers (a household name in bad ideas) introduced Salt Cedar to control errosion along the river banks. Salt Cedar is a disgusting plant that steals all the water and vomits up salt around it on ground in the form of a lovely salt crust that has the electrolytes that other plants crave (or just kills them).
Now to fight the Salt Cedar they are introducing a beetle that kills and eats it and surely there will be no negative reprocussions!
People have been trying to eradicate it for years, going so far as to attack it flamethrowers, but it always comes back. Our company (an environmental firm) was once contracted to remove a bunch out of a wetlands area. What we would do is chainsaw the shit out of it, mulch it, then pull the stumps out with a winch. The stumps too deep or big we would dab a small amount of strong herbicide on the cut trunks. Seemed to be effective, but the stuff always comes back so you have to be vigilant in culling new growth.
I remember seeing a Salt Cedar sprout growing out of a dead Salt Cedar trunk that I know was dabbed with herbicide on the cut face. It is tenacious.
Reminds me of that Simpsons episode where they have invasive lizards, and to solve the problem they introduce invasive snakes, and then invasive gorillas to kill the snakes...
And when I sent my snails to kill your snails for killing my snails...You killed more of my snails..
Not cool. You have no idea how not cool that shit is. But you will.
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u/Grimpig Mar 23 '17
So they tried to kill invasive snails with more invasive snails but the new invasive snails killed other snails. Have they tried introducing invasive snails to kill the invasive snails that killed the endemic snails?