Fighting the Prickly Pear CactussteemCreated with Sketch.

in hive-190926 •  3 days ago 
A memorial to the fight against this insidious pest plant that nearly engukfed a lot of Australia.


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I live in the US Mountain West. Prickly pear cactus has thorns, but I never thought of it is a pest.

It is amazing how people create huge problems when they take seemingly innocuous plants out of one ecosystem and place the plant in other ecosystems.

While I see the prickly pear as a just a fun cactus, our mountainsides are being destroyed by plants that people transplanted from around the world.

Totally agree! 👍