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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My garage has black widows. Hidden Oaks has black widows. Welcome to Virginia. We also have copperheads, brown recluses, and bears. This is not news[/quote]

Black widows are not native to northern Virginia.[/quote]

What's your point? Do you think that means it doesn't live here?

Northern Virginia hosts [u]many[/u] non-native species that are now well-established. These species have adapted to the region and often outcompete native flora and fauna, disrupting local ecosystems.

To name just a few non-native, but very well-established, plants and animals:

- English Ivy
- Butterfly bush
- Japanese Honeysuckle
- Asian Wisteria 
- Multiflora Rose
- Phragmites
- Crepe Myrtle
- Hydrilla
- Spotted Lanternfly
- Emerald Ash Borer
- Gypsy Moth / Spongy Moth 
- Northern Snakehead
- Nutria
- Rusty Crayfish
- Zebra Mussel
- Rapa Whelk
- Asian Lady Beetle
- Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
- European Earwig
- Yellow Garden Spider
- European Starling
- House Sparrow
- Mute Swan
- Rock Pigeon
- Callery Pear
- Tree of Heaven
- Norway Maple
- Heavenly Bamboo[/quote]

To anyone with english ivy in your yard, it is horrible, often screws over your neighbors by infiltrating their yard, should probably be outlawed from being sold, and makes mosquitoes worse. Rip it out (which will take constant, repeated effort with how it comes back).[/quote]

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