This is how we ended up with cane toads. Have you been sprayed by a cane toad? Because I have and it is most unpleasant.
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That’s ok. Just put a rubber band around the end of your dong before you go swimming!
Meh, whats one more? We hear a lot about the catastrophes but not the successes.
“Well over 20 million individuals of at least 151 species of insect and mite parasites and predators, almost exclusively of foreign origin, were released against at least 79 insect and mite pests, also predominantly introduced species, in the United States and its Territories in 1982. Also released that year were over 9 million individuals of 21 species of exotic natural enemies of 18 species of introduced weeds. In addition 7 species of pollinators and other beneficial organisms were released. These releases (from either field collections or cultures of foreign origin) or recolonization (from previously established populations in the United States) were made in 45 States and the District of Columbia in 1982. Shipments of 94 biological control agents and pollinators were sent from U.S. facilities to foreign countries in 1982. Also listed in this report are the numerous people in more than 400 Federal, State, university, Territorial, private, and foreign facilities engaged in biological control and other importation, release, and related activities in1982.”…
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Coulson, Jack R., compiler. Releases of Beneficial Organisms in the United States and Territories-1992. Miscellaneous publication No.1505, 529 pp.
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Here in the UK, rotenone is the recommended method for killing introduced fish to allow native newt populations to recover.
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