Fren? *looks it up* Not fren😡

Looking at invasive species like

for the good of local ecosystems...

Too real

Invasive species struggle session let's goooooooooooo

Invasive species are a net negative if left alone because they outcompete surrounding species. This leads to reduced biodiversity because nothing can specialize quickly enough to fill gaps left by the disappearance of native species.

Alas,

is required

Hate when I have a healthy plant (luckily haven't seen many bad bugs), and learn I should kill it. Happening a lot where I moved to right now. Old owners (one of which i think was a cop lol) planted a bunch of stuff, some of which is banned in other states for how bad they are.

Killed a bush and replaced it with a native this season. Was very sad but had to be done.

Is that not a cicada of some sort?

Edit: spotted lantern fly... Evil

spotted lanternfly
Edit: I wouldn't say they're evil, they don't have the capacity to be evil. Unfortunately we have to kill them to protect the trees.

Killkillkillkillkillkillkillkill

I killed a lantern fly is the equivalent of

What is it

spotted lanternfly

i read someone on here saying a few days ago that actually they're not as harmful as people have been led to believe? idk

that's the only reason I recognize it since I looked it up after reading that comment + mention of trees of heaven

That was me. I think rule of thumb from ppl who know what they’re talking about is still invasive species gotta go sadly, even though that is also probably still true (not as bad as thought) :( lantern boys are both beautiful and cute though why why why

wow nice photo

Extremely ignorant comment. Go read a book

I think it's fine to kill invasive species, just because it's going to get worse doesn't mean you just give up.
Those invasive species are going to lead to the death of native species, and when that doom spiral happens you've really gone and fucked the ecosystem.
Same logic behind eating invasive Asian carp; if you don't kill it it will kill a native species.
- These animals are just existing.
  Claiming we have a right to murder them for being in the wrong place is cruel - they have only spread there as a result of humanity.
  Do we have a right to eradicate humanity in turn?

Bad bit, invasive species are incredibly damaging to local ecosystems oftentimes causing mass die offs, if not extinctions, of local flora and fauna. See round gobies, Asian carp, and zebra mussels in the great lakes. More often than not invasive species are introduced accidentally into ecosystems by humans, they are not naturally migrating there.
We do see migrations of animals further north as the climate warms like armadillos and deer ticks in the Americas but these are not treated as invasive species. Similarly, species not native to an ecosystem but have become naturalized and are therefore not as damaging are not treated as invasive, like European starlings, dandelions, and pigeons in North America.
Now from a Vegan POV
I don't know what the best solution to invasive species would be. I have heard some vegans make the argument that invasive species control is better as it results in less animal death overall but it is difficult.
- being for animal liberation and against mass animal enslavement and cruelty doesn’t mean that culling animals is never necessary, just as being for human liberation and against human enslavement and cruelty doesn’t mean that it’s never necessary to cull fascists
  and stopping animal extinction, like stopping genocide, can make it necessary to do some killing
  the “always let animals be and wreck the environment” is
  shit like “isntreal has the right to defend itself”
  that said, human intervention has to be carefully thought out to not cause harm, and sometimes not intervening can be the best course of action
- That isn’t my point. The invasive species are a product of a man made cause which is forcing various species to seek alternative habitats due to the conditions created by the burgeroise and their endless quest for nonrenewable resources / wealth.
  “Invasive” is a byproduct of the shifts in climate that we don’t take into consideration, the “invasive” species turning up and ruining new ecosystems is within itself because of the fact their ecosystems were destroyed in the first place. It baffles me because you don’t question the habitats before the migration, the issue now is “they’re in my habitat and must be destroyed.”
  Its like the analogy of voting the lesser evil as if you’ll ever get your utopia out of them, the climate is destroyed, yes there is a 60 year buffer but if we are seeing species that have traveled across the pond and they are flourishing in our habitat that is less likely an issue of “invasive species” it’s the larger issue regarding the ever increasing speed at which climate is destroying entire ecosystems.