Asian Carp on the Mississippi. From the Illinois Extension website Yeah, that title's a Dr. Strangelove reference... Every day we hear about a new "apocalypse species" taking over our backyards, usually brought in on ships and planes from faraway lands: Burmese pythons taking over the Everglades; giant Asian "murder hornets" slaughtering honeybees in Washington; Asian carp (several species!) conquering the Mississippi River and threatening the Great Lakes; jumping worms making cheesecake out of our beloved American soil. The list of invasive species to appear just in the last twenty or thirty years is absolutely enormous, and covers basically every Kingdom in the tree of life. And much as we worry about imports from Europe and Asia, our own exports - bullfrogs, for example, or boxelder trees - are running amok in other vulnerable environments of the world. Even as we continue to wring our hands, we simply cannot stop transporting these creatures all over the wo
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