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This
relationship between uncontrolled vegetation and insects can be
repeated in every case. Plants and animals are interdependent.
Controlling the growth of brush and weeds, will control the insect and
animal population. In most cases, where chemicals are used to control
insects, the first chemical that should be used, is an herbicide.
Just as the destruction of large areas of forest lands in tropical
areas destroys biodiversity in the area, the movement of some of these
tropical plants into other countries can destroy the biodiversity of
their new found home.
Believe
it or not, grass and weeds can eat asphalt and concrete! Trees can
destroy power and communication lines, and even stop a speeding
locomotive. Vines can climb poles and stop transmission of power and
communication as well.
We
also provide green pest control services starting with our prevention
services, and using botanical products proven to be the best on the
market! This service, combined with information and services available
through “Bugs And Weeds”, provide you with the most effective, least toxic pest system on the market!
Aside from
the problems with water delivery systems and transportation, that is,
infrastructure, these weeds pose a potentially far more devastating
problem, that problem is environmental in nature, and has to do with
biodiversity in particular.
We
are talking serious, almost irreparable damage to eco systems, and it
has gone global! A vine that might be fine in China, may swallow an
entire forest in the Southern part of the United States! An aquatic
fern may present no problems in it’s native South America, yet engulf
rivers, ponds and lakes in the Southern U.S.
*Exotic plants move. They do not stay in the same area forever, and they have many means of locomotion.
*Each change in an ecosystem brings about other changes, which in turn, bring about other changes…
*These changes eventually effect the human population economically and in other ways.
What was once,
a group of “non invasive” exotic landscape plants, have now become
destroyers. It happened while we were sleeping. They seemed innocent
enough, but something, or some things, have changed, and now we have
some serious thinking to do, about an increasingly serious problem.
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