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re: someone explain to me this Coastwide Nutria Control Program
Posted on 8/9/17 at 5:47 pm to cgrand
Posted on 8/9/17 at 5:47 pm to cgrand
This is a pretty short-sighted plan, but that's par for the course. Nutria eat floating vegetation among other things. As the alligator population has increased, the nutria population has decreased, which has allowed the floating weed problem to get out of control. Water hyacinth, water lettuce and sylvinia used to be somewhat managed by nutria, but not anymore. Now the state is going to pay people to kill nutria as well as paying contractors to spray the aquatic weeds. Brilliant!!!
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Posted on 8/9/17 at 6:08 pm to Dawg_Fan
The nutria didn't do a damn thing to keep the lillys in check on the duck lease I hunt on.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 7:43 pm to Dawg_Fan
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Water hyacinth, water lettuce and sylvinia used to be somewhat managed by nutria
thats not true, at all
the damage caused by nutria is not by "eating vegetation"
its that they root/burrow in banks and sensitive marsh areas pulling up roots/tubers/etc...in otherwords, terrestrial, not floating, vegetation
just like pigs
Posted on 8/10/17 at 12:06 pm to Dawg_Fan
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Water hyacinth, water lettuce and sylvinia used to be somewhat managed by nutria, but not anymore.
They are vegetarians, but they don't eat any invasive species
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