I'm not using Wikipedia and I doubt that you're making this up.
Chuck Norcutt
Joel Wilcox wrote:
> It would be a plant that is not native. Hawaii would be
> unrecognizable without the nonnative plants and animals that thrive
> there now (coconut palms, hibiscus, just about any garden and
> landscape plant, mesquite/kiawe, guava, banana, papaya, avocado,
> mango, and so forth). Pigs and coqui frogs are a disaster. I wish
> people had been more careful. The mongoose was introduced to control
> rats and mice, and they out-ratted the rats. Seems they like the
> native birds too.
>
> Joel W. (sending Chuck on a massive Wikipedia fact-check to see how
> much of this I am making up... Hehe!)
>
>
>
> On Jun 16, 2010, at 9:33 AM, SwissPace <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Which plants eats mosquitoes, I got quite annoyed last year by them
>> when trying to sleep and I am wary about using the mosquito
>> repellant stuff you plug into the electric. I found vick works ok
>> but my wife doesn't like the smell.
>>
>>
>> On 16/06/2010 16:32, Joel Wilcox wrote:
>>> Hawaii has no snakes whatsoever, unless one sneaks in from Guam
>>> on a freighter, but so far they have always managed to find them.
>>> Hawaii didn't even have mosquitos until they were imported from
>>> the mainland (the current lot are thought to be descended from
>>> Mexico mosquitos).
>>>
>>> In general mosquitos have been a lot more detrimental to my
>>> photographic efforts than snakes. :(
>>>
>>>
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