Uninvited: The Spread of Invasive Species 

Great video! FYI, here are some timestamps for various topics 0:06 - Establishing the invasive species concept 7:20 - The PRISM/CISMA concept 9:36 - Forest pest insects; ALB and EAB 13:40 - Spotted lantern fly & early detection techniques 20:00 - EDRR with a scotch broom detecting dog (and very good girl) 23:16 - EDRR with aerial surveys for Southern pine beetle 25:07 - Water chestnut and biocontrol research 29:48 - Eurasian watermilfoil management 32:25 - Japanese knotweed as an early detection species & private property hazard 35:06 - Hemlock wooly adelgid and potential ecosystem impacts 38:28 - Why manage invasive species? 50:04 - Credits & stop the spread

49:29 Spiderman* Great piece. Surprised no Tree of heaven or bush honeysuckle mentions but just goes to show there are so many.

Great job on this! I particularly love the message that invasive management really is our responsibility.

It’s gotta be a group effort. If we don’t take considerable action altogether in a few years we could look back in horror at our complacency. Great vid.

This was so informative, usually when I hear about invasive it’s the snakes or amphibious creatures. I was not as aware of the effect of invasive plants with the exception of kudzu or certain Ivey. Thank you and I agree we can all start in our little piece of earth, in our own backyards.

Pehnaho, tsande imaah Sosoni'. ❤️ I just love nature and I live my life in a way that protects our natural resources. We ALL need to come together and clean up our planet and stop the invasion of non-native species in areas where it does not belong. Wish you all the best! May the Great Spirit watch over you. 🙏

Thank you for your work. Among what I appreciate is the collection of materials to further investigate, consider, and use to engage in productive dialogue. One point I wish to challenge is the statement that invasive species have not led to extinction of any species, made with the qualifier of "on a continental scale". I challenge viewers to research this claim and suggest starting with querying whether we really know. Also, consider if it is significant whether complete annihilation vs virtual elimination or dramatic alteration has occurred. Note on the continental qualifier, Australia seems to be considered an island in this argument and, if a species occurred only on an island and is now extinct on that island then it is extinct from the Earth. Ultimately, what is the point of waiting until extinction occurs to decide something is amiss? I urge: Consider species and ecosystems above and below ground, aquatic and terrestrial, macro and microscopic, and to otherwise be all inclusive. Consider species such as the chestnut, elm, earthworms, Yunnan lake newt, and consider whether humans are invasive or act in an invasive manner. Again, I challenge people to dig deeper. And to avoid getting overwhelmed, follow the advise given that each of us can help by taking care of what is in our immediate environment and by making more skillful choices.

I attended a webinar yesterday - Joyce Novak guest speaker and head of Peconic Estuary Partnership...I shared with the participants the documentary as invasive species came up.

Before I became too disabled to keep it up, I had lots “wild” gardens with native plants. I tried to plant things native insects and mammals could eat and live on or under or within. Many beasties were very much in love with my composting pile.

The problem with Hydrilla in Central Florida where I live is significant as well as Illinois pondweed. When these are sprayed with herbicide it turns the crystal clear water into green soup for weeks. I am not sure which is worse. Some of the lakes have had "sterile" carp placed in them to control the vegatation. Then, the carp eat everything .

Well done NYSDEC! This was a very informative video. Thanks for the important work you do!

Wow! Not only is this incredibly well made, the message is immensely important. This is a must watch for everyone.

You're all doing very important work! Thank you and keep it up!

I remember when we first got up to the lake and we were looking at the property and I see this beautiful green metallic bug on the tree I said wow is that ever cool. Then we started seeing the commercials about an invasive species that are killing all of our ash trees, lo and behold, the beautiful beetle, and our tree died yrs later.MN'98 excellent video.

A very eye opening video, thank you so much

This is so well put together and really educational. Thank you.

There are so many it's overwhelming.

Thank you for your recommendation Ale! Now I know why you are the real expert. Very interesting to learn about invasive species in our world.

The Japanese knotweed is an incredibly resilient plant.It is a major problem for property owners and once you get it , it’s impossible to get rid of. We unearthed all the knotweed on our property that we could get up, the rest we cut in half and dumped bleach into the stems, then put plastic tarps on the entire property that wasn’t a large tree. It’s been grueling. It’s still coming back in spots but we kill those plants off and are hoping for the best. We need to get rid of all of it to sell the house. The problem is that it comes from the surrounding properties. It’s been a major hardship.

Pet store should be held accountable for selling these snakes🐍🚫 don't know how we're going to combat the ash bugs!? This is very informative I was thinking just animal type aggressors. Plants bugs oh my goodness! Thank you for this valued information.👍🏼✌🏼🖖🏼

I've tried to make people aware about invasive birds, but people don't care. I even mentioned this problem to the parks department and I was ignored as well. You sparrows and starlings are cute but they're invasive species and are very aggressive, people don't realize how their aggressiveness is detrimental to native species, even the ones that are bigger in size. Then there are the pigeons who bring all kinds of diseases and are also pretty aggressive

The end of the movie, prime directive etc, comes from Star Trek.

One method of controlling Lanternfly is an annual application of dormant oil.

How well does that stem injection work on the Japanese knotweed? I've treated small patches on the Allegheny river here in PA. We mechanically knocked it back with weed eaters, then allowed it to grow back. Six weeks after the knock back we would spray it with glyphosate and that pretty much eradicated it. I checked a year later and it was probably a 95% or better kill rate. And don't even get me started on Japanese barberry, lol.

In Africa the main problem children are largemouth and smallmouth bass, common carp, black wattle trees, arundo reed, water hyacinth and river poplar. In a region with predicted water shortages due to climate change I find it very strange that little is actually being done about it by local authorities - by and large.

Thank you.

Good documentary other than the varying volume levels

Lovely and necessary exploration of invasives

quality work! Thank you.

Extremely informative...shared to social media and our East Hampton Town Trustees FB page. The dog is a great addition ...what is her name?

love your videos they are helpful

I Learned alot from this Video! Live in Orange County.

This was a good video full of information

Great video and man kind is the most invasive species

I really wish the narrator enunciated better… but this was a very well done video. I’m definitely going to share this

The Earth and nature think that humans are the invasive species.

The amount of ash lost in the last 7 years is insane. Some areas the boarers are here but not a big problem yet.

You get my aid for sure, but I’m being censored on what I really wanted to thank you for, but I believe there’s built in algorithms or ears that don’t like certain “emotive words. I’ve been with you since Paul Watson, Paul Spong..Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and in the order of things CND to. I applied to work on the Rainbow Warrior -the first one, but didn’t get aboard due to this being The Most Popular job in the then Greenpeace based locally to my place way back when I lived in the “big smoke” -cough London. Will support you. Oxxx

86% east mississippi .? what is the % west ? what do you think ?

Probably devoting more resources and money to the problem and science instead of the military and cops we would be able to prevent problems instead of paying this massive cost down the road. It’s really frustrating that officials don’t want to devote resources but want the problem solved.

Can the water chestnuts pulled from the water be composted? One way to get something out of an invasive species.

People are uncontrolled. The deer have fewer and fewer places to find food so they eat gardens where there used to be their natural food and now there are houses, lawns, gardens and roads and the folks whose gardens are being eaten see the deer as “rats with ears.” We have infected hemlocks on Cayuga Lake. We treated the best trees, but couldn’t treat them all.

Thank you New York Department of Environmental Conservation for posting this good nature show about invasive species.

Hello SRU students

Prevention is ten times cheaper than treatment. Texas

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Thanks for the great film! Ironically, the goldenrod you show in the very first shot of unspoilt nature has become an invader here in central Europe... at least the bees like it!

All I've seen in this state is how much money the state spends on these efforts for them not to be successful. IE: emerald ash borer, stink bug, water chestnut, hogsweed

AYY LETS GO SPENCER YOU BACKWOODS MISSOURI RIVER RAT 314 STAND UP

Wites not trying to be offensive only care cuz of their beach houses, cabins and other estates on non euro lands have been effected.

Been working in these field of invasion ecology, more I go deep into study I feel more worry. However US are knowing the impact and working hard to contain it but in my country nobody knows,even governments don't have plan for it. Applying a project with title "invasive species", government officials reply-- we need high tech project not this unrelated species.

I do notice that the NYDEC sells a number of non-native species in their tree sales; among the evergreens they sell Austrian Pine, Scotch Pine, Norway Pine, European Larch and Japanese Larch. I don't know that they are invasive but they do not contribute to the ecology in the way that native species do.

these lantern things destroyed our pussywillow tree and ,by the time we realized they killed the tree it was to late. we could not save the tree, HOWEVER we mixed a VERY SMALL amount of dawn dish detg ,and water and that kills them INSTANTLY , NEXT SEASON THEY WILL BE ERRADICATED FROM THIS YARD

Old man beard must go

What infuriating is how anglers have dropped the ball with common carp and are too lazy and just toss them back if they catch one. They have given in an just accepted treating common carp as a native and have given up control. They don't realize out there there are native fish having a hard time and need all they help they can get because its the Common carp that have driven them to the brink.

House cats are directly responsible for the extinction of at least 31 species of songbird. Australia has a bounty on feral cats

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So much of this always goes back to the old world Europeans. Whether it's invasive species, killing off native wildlife, over consumption of natural resources, introducing diseases to other areas of the world where they didn't exist prior to their arrival - most of this goes back to the old world Europeans. It's amazing how devastating Humans were back then and they didn't even know or think about the consequences of their actions. There's much more awareness now but sometimes I wonder if old world Humans have done way too much for us to fix it at this point.

This is an important topic, unfortunately I quit twelve minutes in due to poor audio quality and ridiculous background music.

In other words, don't mess with Mother Nature. She has it under control until man interfers.

Bring back native species, spread seeds, spores and plants where you can

I'm from Australia the cane toad has desamated the native animals

Is this aba of aba and preach narrating if not this guy was blessed with the same goofy ass voice

did Edward Snowden narrate this? lol

Like Europeans?

THE PROBLEN ISENT FROM SMALL BOATS ITS FROM SHIPS TAKING ON BALLEST WATER N DUMPING IT AT THERE DESTINATION !!!!!!!!

And why was it brought into this country.$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

I think we should consider researching the history of invasive Species globally before formulating such opinions. Our planet governs life here on a different time scale to human existence.

leave the shrubs alone.

Everything has a purpose.

We have a invasive species of the human kind in the Americas and Africa

So basically we need to resort back to the "savage" lifestyle? The hippies were right! The indigenous peoples had it well under control. I love it.

Don’t logging company impact humans too I mean the logging guys leave no trees standing cut everything down just like that bug

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Pseudoscience. Some arguments made in this video are valid. But the underlying ideas are built on completely disproven concepts. For example, there is no such thing as balance in nature. If there was, how could it be defined? It's impossible to find a satisfying definition. Nature is a state of continual alteration between stability and instability. We have trouble seeing this undulation because of our comparatively short lifespans. However, by looking at the pollen record or at palynomorphs, we can see just how much things change. Climates change massively, geomorphology changes also and thus species assemblages change. Another criticique of invasion biology is, how all the negative phenomena that are attributed to invasives also occur by natives. Native population outbreaks and massive dieoffs. Native monostands and severe habitat restriction caused by natives. Furthermore, nothing that humans do (with their movement of species) is any different than what occurs without humans. Take for instance the movement of entire continents by plate tectonics. This can be likened to us building a ship and traversing goods from one continent to another. The moment at which two previously separated continents touched, must have contributed to the same massive ecological changes that we see now. Massive vegetation changes and as a corollary, massive animal extinctions. Also, vegetation rafts have carried animal species across the ocean without human interference. Yes, biogeographical barriers do exist, but there are mechanisms by which they are traversed completely without human interference. The reason why this "science" stays afloat is because of the money machine behind it. Pesticide manufacturers profit greatly by environmentalists spraying their poisons instead of sueing them for environmental destruction, which would be a more appropriate act to help the environment. Lastly, you invasion fanatics are xenophobic at worst and anthropophobic at best. Since your hatred for certain invasive species may not be directed at them, but at humans for spreading them, and since, spreading species is literally an impossibility as long as we have international trade and travel, furthermore since the act of spreading is the most natural thing for any organism to do, I must conclude you are nature-hating.

Invasion biology = biologist who want to always be right without having to do science.

The story of the white man!

WASTE OF TIME. I stopped vid at eight min. when all they were saying is blah blah blah, with not one word to describe WHAT THE HELL HAS INVADED America. thumbs down.

You do realize you have completely destroyed the theory of evolution.....

Human are the invasive one

If so called invasive species were suddenly found to be not as problematic every single scientist interviewed for this documentary jobs would be in danger. This is literally job security for them. What ny has done and allows to happen to many fisheries throughout the state in the name of eradicating invasive submergent vegetation has been absolutely disastrous.

That's not right, look @ the money we've spent on homeland security !!! And our American Farmers go without because you think that's a better way to do business ??? Whatever happened, I don't want to get into this like that... When's the last time anybody's called her a lady

I thought this was a video about democrats and the biden family

I just uploaded this Video to the new-- NYWOODSANDWATER in the Habitat Forum.