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zorionek0 t1_jcpp8i5 wrote

Reply to comment by Allemaengel in Lanternfly quarantine zone expands in Pennsylvania by ImperialIIClass

Life finds a way! That’s really reassuring

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DoctorSteve t1_jcqb0qf wrote

I mean "life finds a way", but this is still upsetting and changing the ecosystem. Predators gaining new food sources isn't things returning to normal.

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Allemaengel t1_jcqrsdk wrote

But it really hasn't where I am and I work in the area where it's been the longest. They're almost non-existent now and except for a few non-native Tree of Heaven and non-native types of cultivated grapevine, there hasn't been much plant mortality in the couple years that SLF boomed before predators figured them out.

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DoctorSteve t1_jcqsm85 wrote

The increase in food for insect predators will lead to an at least short-lived insect predator boom. I'm saying that is disruptive. It's not a rebalancing.

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reverendsteveii t1_jcr6y49 wrote

It's things returning to a different, new normal the way they have in response to pressure since the beginning of time. Our job was never to get things back to the way they were, it was to ease the transition.

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DoctorSteve t1_jcrigs3 wrote

I disagree with "that's how it's been since the beginning of time".

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reverendsteveii t1_jcro4ul wrote

You can disagree but unless you can produce for me a dinosaur you're wrong

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DoctorSteve t1_jcrt849 wrote

Do you think the extinction of the dinosaurs was from natural causes?

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