Well....this is a fallen world. Here are examples of AI assisted videos discussing invasive species, something of a double fall!
"America Spent $12.5 Billion Fighting the Emerald Ash Borer. The Woodpeckers Did It For Free"
(!!Cut to the chase summary....There are 2 varieties of woodpecker that hammer through the bark and eat the larvae, nuthatch that will look for and eat the larvae, and a native fly with a long ovadepositor that has learned to parasitize their lavae. Large areas have experienced destruction of ash groves. Ash trees are recovering somewhat now that native species are beginning to control the borer. )
(I would link to the English folk song "The Ash Grove" which my mother used to sing to me, but it would not be suitible in this context.)
(!!Cut to the chase summary; Sturgeon and Drum can crush and eat the shells, Whitefish eat the floating larvae and young before they get shells. Downside...the zebras clean the water and accumulate toxins and heavy metals in their bodies which transfers to the fish. So bad if you like to eat whitefish. I think there is one other thing attacking them. Do not recall what it is.)
They have another you tube I did not watch. Invasive flying catfish. Allegator gar are starting to use them as a food source. Do a search if interested.
A fallen world with fallen people and one redeemer!
We have the last Ash tree, probably in the entire state! It DID get damaged from the Emerald Ash Borer, but that thing will not die!
Beau cut down the tree before it FELL down, but it keeps re-sprouting, which I don’t mind. It is the most CHEERFUL shade of green (think, Kermit!) you’d ever want to see, and it looks like a big shrub right now. It’s in front of a line of Norway Spruce, so the greens look pretty together.
Not sure what Beau will do about it, but it’s in a spot he doesn’t often see, so maybe she can stay? Also, after felling 47 trees in the past few weeks, I think he’s sick of taking down trees, LOL!