Via Technorati, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite places to hang out, I see that plenty of people are tagging their YouTube submissions with "invasive species." Some of these videos are quite entertaining:
- From rienchien, a video of a brown anole lizard and a gecko. Both in Florida, both non-native there, and one eating the other! Awesome! (Not safe for the squeamish)
- LeafMaker put together a five minute educational video about Japanese knotweed in the Great Lakes region of the US. It's a little trippy with the music and roadside driving and all, and I love the title fonts he uses. The video is actually pretty good, though at one point he does stand next to already-past-flowering stalks of knotweed and claim that they are about to burst ito flower (I think that was actually hybrid Fallopia x bohemica too, but never mind...).
- From kieranpearson, coqui frogs at UMass Boston. Yes, my school has a coqui infestation in the greenhouse. Yes, it annoys me, even though we're in Boston, MA. Yep, I'm worried about climate change too.
- From gurdonark, an animation of epically painful proportions. Plant invasions start in the backyard, dontcha know? (Let me know if you can make it all the way through this one - there's actually an educational message at the end.)
- From ReallyLee, a photo montage of 71 pampas grass plants, naturalized in El Granada, CA. I like this - it is an interesting idea, and quite powerful, to show the photos streamed together in a video. Also, be sure not to miss the sequel: 90 more pampas grass plants.
Update 4/15/07: This got a small mention in the Boston Globe, have fun hunting for the linkback :-).
5 comments:
If I see this is any of my 1000 local Starbucks, I will ask them the same questions in person.
I'll also grab some samples, plant them, and see what comes up.
I planted one of my disks too (in a pot...inside) just to see what's in there. When I held the disk up to the light, I could see a lot of seeds.
To describe the youtube video from gurdonark as epically painful is an understatement.
I love this compilation of YouTube videos - not some of the individual videos so much, but the fact that you posted links to them and that people are using YouTube for this kind of stuff.
It *is* a catchy put-down--"epically painful". Thanks for the moment's amusement.
Of course, the notion that backyard invasives are an issue is not original to the crude cartoon on youtube.
http://www.nature.org/initiatives/invasivespecies/features/
But I'm glad to find your resource nonetheless.
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