5 Problem Invasive Species In Texas
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- In this video i will be focusing on the beautiful; state of Texas. Texas is one of the largest states in the USA and as it's almost 3 times the size of the UK it has plenty of space foe wildlife. Texas is home to many predators such as wolves, cougars, and even ocelots and is also home to the largest bat colony in the US. Just like many other states across the US, Texas is also home to some problem invasive species. I will be going through just a few of these invasive species today as i will be going through 5 problem invasive species in Texas.
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Our first problem invasive species in Texas is the brown anole.
Our second problem invasive species in Texas is the Sika deer.
Our third invasive species in Texas is the cattle egret.
Our fourth problem invasive species in Texas is the European eel.
Our final invasive species in Texas is the green iguana.
Thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed :)
You should have pointed out that feral hogs are more populous and problematic in Texas
Pay attention. He said he's focusing on the less known invasive species
They aren't invasive as such.
@@bradypfeiffer1107 pay attention his video title only says 5 invasive species
@@jimgrif5998 how not?
They are a invasive species. This isn't a dam citizen ship. I
There’s also Nilgai, a large antelope from India that were brought to Texas for the same reason as the Sika Deer.
It’s interesting to see such a large animal in a place like Texas
Bro what are you talking about? Texas has a ton of large animals. Including Grizzly bears, elk, and cougars. You’re probably one of those that thinks Texas is all desert, well allow me to inform you that it also has a mountainous area, a deep forest area, a dry jungle area, and even a wet marshland home to crocodiles and alligators.
I think it would be cool if there was a series on reintroduced species
I vote for the Velociraptor to be reintroduced into California.
@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 why Cali?
@@charlestonbrown148 Three guesses.
@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 Who needs the darwin awards when you can just release a raptor lol. I love ,it
@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 velociraptors never lived in USA, they came from todays mongolia
Loved that you MENTIONED the iguana problem in Puerto Rico. I remember when I was young, they’d pay you to kill them for like a summer if I’m not mistaken.
Any soup?
I remember in 5th Grade we were coming back from our outdoor PE period and on the steps someone just left a whole iguana, so we told our teachers about it and then they THREW IT AWAY Despite it being alive. So our secretary caught wind of it and she fished it out the trash and held on to it for the day and now it’s her pet. This was in Maryland btw so not invasive considering it wouldn’t last but still it’s crazy that some people just let their pets go so irresponsibly
How are the zebras doing? Did anyone catch the Maryland zebras? Can't think of a more destructive invasive species.
Just a correction to your intro, wolves have been extinct in Texas for almost a century and the wildlife department has decided to keep it that way to protect the people and livestock as well as the wolves
thats sad they bring over these invasive speices who arent even suppose to be here and kill grey wolves which didnt even do anything
He was likely referring to the red wolf off some of the coastal islands. Not sure if they are even still around
This dude is some amateur that has no idea about wildlife. He said Sika deer and whitetails can interbreed... two in complete different genus...so no, all of this is just late night crap.
So they're not extinct, they're just extirpated?
Yes, red wolves are only extirpated from the State of Texas, as are grey (timber) wolves & Mexican grey wolves (all of which used to, historically, inhabit distinct regions of the state). But none of them are completely extinct, at least not yet… red wolves only survive, really, in South Carolina I think, and even that land is highly protected and monitored. Researchers have actually found red wolf DNA all across Texas though, albeit in feral & stray dog populations. Lol. And in coywolves/wolyotes.
That’s another concern with the surviving red wolves-coyote and feral dogs coming and interbreeding, messing with the gene pool. Likely too late on that one, but they’re doing what they can. 🫤
My area has a ton of the native green anole. Problem is since they change color between brown and green it’s pretty hard to tell the two apart. The cowbird is also super common and likes to hang around our donkies
Green anoles usually appear more clean-skinned than brown anoles (if that makes sense) in my experience. Brown anoles always seem to have almost bumpy looking skin compared to green anoles when they turn brown it’s like a single shade usually
Brown Anoles have patterning or stripes and markings, Green Anoles (when brown) are smooth and patternless, having no pattern at all.
Males can be distinguished by the dewlap background color.
Brown Anole - orange dewlap
Green Anole - pink dewlap
For females, see FireoftheGreeks reply above.
@@FireoftheGreeks thanks
@@Notacladist I have never actually gotten the chance to see them flap out despite how much I see them
I think it would be cool to see a invasive species list in Wyoming, it's a small population state, but it has a lot of land in room for invasive species to take over, so I think it would be cool to see what invasive species are in that state
We don’t have any wolves in Texas.
@@chazdoomy1512 we got coyotes lol
@@chazdoomy1512 wolves are a reintroduced species not invasive, they were all killed because people are scared of everything, or couldn't couldn't bothered to actually protect their cattle, easier to kill everything that could eat them and leave them unattended.
@@OG_BiggusDickus how did you get any of that from a simple fact I stated?
@@chazdoomy1512 you replied to a comment about invasive species about wolves how could I infer anything else? Why else would you be talking about something you would have us believe is completely off topic did you reply to the wrong comment?
The heron that arrived by natural migration is, by definition a native species. In NEw Zealand dozens of species of birds and plants , or their forbears originally came from Australia and are considered native if they naturally arrive and naturally establish. This process has been happening for thousands of years before the arrival of man and continues today, with new bird and orchid species having arrived in the last couple of decades.
Agreed. Little Egret is doing the same thing too.
funnily enough the cattle egret colonised Australia but is only a migrant to New Zealand and just will NOT breed here. I don't think anyone knows why.
Same for Green Iguanas in Texas. If this video is accurate, they expanded their territory northwards from Mexico on their own. And of course just as mentioned at the start, borders and boundaries are for the most part just lines on a map.
From comments on these videos I have learned that the Laughing Gull just sometimes flies to England or Africa and hangs out. This is the main seagull here in the Gulf/Caribbean region, it's rare anywhere else in the US.
Great video, do a Washington invasive species one please!
I've seen a lot of Brown Anoles in Houston largely around West U, but recently found 2 this past summer in my home (south Houston, close to Pearland)
There's brown anoles in Florida too, took me years to discover they're not native to the State
I live in south Houston too lmao
There are so many brown anoles here, it's rare for me to see greens anymore. I'm in north Houston by Bush airport.
First time I saw one was when I lived in La Marque
@@tobyhorn9641 ???
I’ve lived in Texas my whole life (hunting and fishing) and only encountered the cattle birds and sika deer from this list. I’ve seen green anoles turn brown to camouflage themselves but never seen a brown anole. Also, never seen an iguana in the wild in Texas so I’m curious as to the distribution of these. Never encountered an eel either but there are tons of Asian carp, hydrilla, zebra mussels, giant sylvania, and other non-natives here. There’s also several other exotic deer breeds/species throughout the state but those are kind of a welcomed intrusion. There are literal auctions held for these animals and land that has exotic deer sell for a premium.
Also, apparently armadillos, the state small mammal, are considered invasive by some authorities.
The brown anoles are everywhere here in houston and ive seen them in austin and nacogdoches as well, similar to you i have also never seen or heard of any iguannas in texas yet but if they get here with the rising temps they can most definetily establish populations
I live in Corpus and brown anoles are now the norm down here. Green anoles are hard to find.
A few years ago an iguana used to live in my neighborhood. No one could catch him. Just assumed someone dumped a pet since we’re near a park.
I can only assume that if he was still alive the freeze last February had to have killed him. I can’t imagine an iguana surviving 17° temps unfortunately.
I see green anoles in Dallas. I've never seen a brown one. I've never seen any deer except for white tails.
That's shocking to hear about the armadillo. But yes very true about the invasive deer species because they're all over here in the hill country and you can hunt them year round 😁
The fact that neither fire ants or yellow crazy ants made the list is insane.
One that is a huge problem are zebra mussels. If you're coming from Lake Texoma and you have a boat you HAVE to drain the water and inspect for the mussels before you put the boat back in local lakes, they clog drains, wear down boat paint and are SOB to get rid of once they infest a water
Agreed. They've infested every lake now.
Nice work. I enjoyed watching it and learned a lot!
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Thank you for giving Puerto Rico a mention with the green iguanas. They’ve been a problem since before I was born. When I visit my family there, there never fails to be a wandering iguana to welcome us haha. My uncle and grandpa hunted them when they ate their flowers or the eggs from their chickens. I actually saw my uncle skin one my grandpa had shot once. It was a once in a lifetime experience to see how he expertly cut the choicest parts of the animal. He even gave me the hind feet and some of the hide once he’d tanned it (I know it might sound creepy, but the back feet work great as back scratchers when you tape them to a stick).
This was a little long but what I wanted to say was I appreciate it.
Best time for axis deer is may-august also considered exotic so no closed season, you can also hunt year round, hunting license required. Also better to shoot one lease or someone's property you know that has then. Shooting from the roadway in Texas is illegal
Watching this on my 24th birthday 🎂 🥳 another great video btw Tsuki
Thanks man i appreciate it and i happy birthday i hope you have a great day :)
Hi. Can you do videos on Malawi cichlids and top 5 largest tarantulas
Please cover Michigan invasive species!
I love your channel and am from Michigan and it would be awesome to see it covered.
Hello I am a regular follower of your channel and would love it if you cover some of the invasive species of my home country India
I have been thinking about covering India for a long time but so far it's been quite hard to research the invasive species there and a lot of the invasive species in India have also been covered in other videos but i'm sure i will get around to it at some point
The brown anoles are virtually impossible to get rid off there in every crack a Crees in Florida
Please do a video about 5 invasive species in Puerto Rico
Awesome video
I would like to mention next time about the invasive fish. The snakehead, gold fish, Parana, That displace native species. We also have a invasive species of plant called the great kudzu that can take over large area in the south. It can grow in water as well as on land. Yeah just some future Ideas for you.
He did the snakehead, a few months ago, when he talked about florida
Red and sika deer are NOT closely related to whitetail and cannot interbreed. They belong to a subfamily more closely aligned with wapiti aka North American elk. Whitetail are in a completely unique subfamily of New World deer including black tailed and mule deer.
I live in Pharr,TX and have a group of about 25 of them behind my apartment of brown Anoles.
Nice
I love your intro
Love your videos, is it possible for you to do invasive species in Madagascar?
We have brown anoles and cattle egrets as invasive species in Hawaii and they're everywhere, especially in urban environments.
He should do one for Hawai’i. I’m curious to what other invasive species we have out here. I always assumed the Egrets were native here, the more I know.
I’d like to see more videos about canada maybe invasive species from some of the different provinces like you could do british columbia as we have lots of invasive species and since canada is so big you could probably do 3-4 different provinces without it being to difficult because of overlap
how much info you think is available about Costa Rica having invasive species?
Can you make a video about invasive plant species?
Omg green iguanas are everywhere !! I’m in south Florida , and some of them are HUGE and actually really pretty. Some of them are like a deep orange color … pretty badass.
Just what we need. Another fast talking "Brit" telling me about my home state.
Can you do Pennsylvania? We have quite a few that I can think of off the top of my head, like the Praying Mantis and Spotted Lantern Fly.
An invasive plant species that causes huge problems here is middle eastern juniper trees (known as Texas cedar) it spreads like crazy and pollinates at an insane rate. Everyone gets sick for months at a time due to the amount of pollen in the air during the colder times of year, they also mess with the watershed and dry up creeks and ponds. There are companies that eradicate them, but they are so wide spread that we might never get rid of them.
I love in the Texas hill country. Luckily I don’t have any hogs on my property, but they’re all over the place. We also have a lot of axis deer around here that are from Asia and Europe I think.
Edit: we also have a ton of Mediterranean house geckos. I’m not sure if the geckos or axis deer are really a problem, though?
The house geckos have been a thing in the coastal cities for decades. I think they like houses and buildings, but don't really like woods and prairie. State law allows hunting with no limits year round on those axis and sika deer. If you can't do it yourself and you have some land, I'm sure you can find someone who will. They will give you a few prime cuts of venison and some deer sausage as payment.
Humans : you can't leave Africa
Cattle egert : bet
Howdy from Texas 🤠
good job tsuki
sika deer r so common in texas , i remember it was everyone’s dream hunt in high school
When discussing invasive, please point out any for which there are bounties (I don’t know if Texas offers bounties but I know that certain invasive do have bounties in certain states).
You could make a 2 hour documentary on this subject
We call the cattle egret “tick birds” in East Texas
I watched the brown anole takeover in my own backyard. 15 years ago all we had were the green ones, then every year since, it's more and more brown anoles and less greens.
Sorry if someone already pointed this out, but I think they are called "Chicken of the Trees" because green iguana meat is eaten as an excellent source of protein.
The brown anole is an interesting invasive lizard in Texas. I've personally seen one in a garden center in Dallas but never anywhere else. From what I know about them they're not overrunning the state and there populations are mainly centered around urban areas. I know that in most of the state, our winters keep them from becoming too established. However, they do indeed outcompete native green anoles if given the chance. I read that in the Florida Keys they've done exactly that and have just about entirely replaced the green anoles there. But in Texas I don't really see them becoming a big problem, especially in natural environments where native green anoles live.
I live in south Texas and brown anoles are a huge problem down here.
It doesn’t get cold enough in the winter to kill many (if any) of them most years and there aren’t many tall trees for green anoles to hide in the tops of.
So brown anoles out compete them and eat juvenile green anoles and now green anoles are almost impossible to find, while brown anoles are everywhere.
When I was a kid in the 90s green anoles were the norm. We used to catch them all the time. Now my kid can only see them in pet stores or zoos here locally.
I've lived in eastern Texas nearly my whole life. We were taught how to live off the land and about different species of animals. Not once in my life have I ever seen a brown anole or a sika deer. We grow 2 large gardens every year and have an abundance of green anoles and green tree frogs. Not far from me I have a friend with a cattle ranch. All we have ever seen on his property are hogs and white tailed deer, but those egrets keep his cattle free of ticks and flies. We've never seen them in either of his ponds, they tend to stay out of the water.
AmericanCryptid Even though the graphic showed brown anoles coming from Florida around the Gulf states to Texas, that’s not how it’s happening.
They’re coming in to the port cities first. So, Houston, Corpus Christi, and Brownsville are where there are a *lot* of brown anoles. And they’re spreading to the other major cities from there.
Brown anoles don’t climb very high up trees, so the only way green anoles are surviving in these areas is to go in to tree tops. But in parts of south Texas, there are no tall trees. Only shrubby mesquites, retamas, and the like.
The brown anoles are going to spread beyond the port cities if we don’t do something about them. But Texas doesn’t have a good track record of doing anything about invasive species. Especially small ones.
@@Annie_Annie__ Correct, Brown anoles are a port species in Texas, and are dominant in the east side of Houston and a few parts of the west side.
Gotcha beat here in south Florida
It's like living and fishing in a very large pet shop
How were you able to get Brian
Cox to do all of your spoken narration?!
Will you do a video about Invasive Species in sweden?
Eel is very popular world wide for sushi :P. I think people are eating them all!
Can you do Wyoming pretty please with a invasive species on top?
They say it started in the sixties in Victoria B.C Canada 🇨🇦 when a broader lost his collection of anoles.
Cattle Egrets are common in my neighborhood
Sika are beautiful animals, and are an asset to Texas, not a problem. They make good eating.
There’s sika deer in Texas? There’s a small population in Maryland that has been there for some time but haven’t expanded past the marshes
Can you do New Brunswick Canada Next Please
I live in South Texas (on the border) for most of my life and have never seen any iguanas from Mexico. Plenty of brown anoles around here for sure.
The brown anoles are interesting, I have many around my house. You can find tones in Hous9
That's interesting, I've seen them where I live in Dallas but not many at all. I think it has something to do with our winters being a little colder than down in Houston.
@@vladpoofin1759 That's true
You should do a video about the coolest snail & slug species.
Snails and Slugs... SERIOUSLY?
in a recent video you the hippo was the largest invasive species. maybe do a video on the size??
Has he made a video on the great lakes
Ah my home. I've seen a few of these animals.
The first ones were everywhere growing up in the 80s n 90s
Can you do North Carolina next?
Are NW Houston, Texas we had a huge problem with the Brown anoles then we had a good freeze in Texas for over a week in Feb 2022 and now I've seen 99% Less brown anoles and more green angles.
You should have included Apple snails
I actively keep an eye on reptiles I see my area. Thankfully, my house has a good native lizard, anole, and skink population.
Whenever I see Mediterranean House geckos, I catch them and set up a small living are for them. I get excited when I managed to catch mature females.
Thankfully I haven't seen any brown anoles in my area.
Sika deer are in Maryland and Suffolk County on Long Island New York
Brown anoles are everywhere in maui and out competed the green ones which sucks but now we also got gold dust day geckos(geico gecko)everywhere also egrets
I seen anoles in MS. They are everywhere in Summer.
Can you make a video of endangered animals with invasive food sources,
Interesting 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🤩🤩🤩
There are Sika Deer in Delaware/Maryland also.
This hits close to home. I remember in Corpus Christi, the brown anoles are more numerous than the native green. In response, when I caught one, I tried to be humane by breaking the neck with a karate chop and would feed the dead lizards to the birds, which they surprisingly accepted.
I have been seeing a large increase in the hawk population here in Minnesota. Maybe it’s a good sign that the old DDT egg shell problem is on the mend. I hope that it’s true for other states as well and maybe they’ll increase in numbers to help control the lizard population?
+Tsuki please do Oklahoma next
How do you tell the difference between a European eel and a American eel
Oh I think I've seen the 1st one at the Alamo
We have a lot of grackles that will hunt them.
I live out in the country and see cow birds all the time. Had no idea they were invasive!
We used to have large numbers of starlings and house sparrows in northern Illinois, but I haven't seen any of either in years. Probably due to advances in harvesting technology. Farm equipment spills and wastes less grain. We don't raise oats anymore, either.
The native deer and rabbits are out of control without a good predator base. They eat off every tree I plant, and even stripped the bark off of adult 50 year old apple trees.
You can find them lizards every in Texas. They are pretty cool, also PetSmart/Petco tries to sell them for almost 30 bucks. An employee tried to sell me one of them lizards, I asked, " why would I spend 30 bucks on a lizards that I can get for free in my own yard?"
Love your videos
Thanks i appreciate it :)
The river walk in San Antonio you can look in and see common Plecos stuck to the wall
I'm surprised you didn't cover the armoed catfish
We have four species of lizard in our yard here in Rancho Maroge California. The brown anole is the most prevalent. I just had assumed that they were native like the rest. They are not skittish like the other breeds. It will just sit there and puff their dew flap a me.
Is sika deer meat any good? We eat alot of good meat in Tx.
Yes
Kentucky next please
I guess my problem with invasive species is that most of them were brought hear by some idiot who thought it was a good idea, hunting seems to be the main reason. Texas has huge hunting ranches with all sorts of game to hunt. Problem happens when these places go out of business and animals are loose to roam free. Take a look at camels, rabbits and others in Australia.
There’s a lot of deer-like animals imported from Africa into the ranches in the country side of Texas. They usually aren’t an issue for the native wildlife sine they are in a ranch but some escape the ranches and compete with the native white tailed deer.
I was driving out in West Texas and saw a ranch with zebra and blackbucks. I've even seen reports in Texas of people finding warthogs and African porcupines that escaped from game ranches. I hope none of those things get out because we'll have even more problems with our ecosystems.
@@vladpoofin1759 Exactly, we have people who brought Boars from eastern Europe now all over the south, Pythons in Florida. Hell, Norway rats came on ships in the 1600s, that didn't age well. Asian carp are in some of our rivers, just for a few.
@@robertward553 most of the pythons in FL were the result of a breeding facility being destroyed during Hurricane Andrew in 1992. That’s not to say all of them are the result of that, but a good majority are. A lot of invasive species are due to the pet trade and poor education. Goldfish being released into the wild after someone getting tired of it leads to massive amounts of goldfish in the wild. Lionfish in the Gulf of Mexico, also the result of the pet trade. You also have species that find their way due to imports and exports. I believe fire ants came via importing produce from South America. What makes most invasive species worse is that there is no natural predator to keep their populations in check. Burms have been known to eat small alligators (even larger ones depending on the size of the Burm) in addition to a lot of the native mammal and bird populations. Won’t even get into domestic house cats (I keep mine inside).
Growing up I knew the brown anole was invasive but I never once saw one, I did see a lot of Mediterranean house geckos tho
Sika are dark in color and smaller than axis and whitetail. I'm not sure who gathered the photos for this video, but i believe some of it is incorrect. Fallow and axis look similar, but their antlers are different.
I still miss my quaker parrot.
Great video, come visit us in Texas.
I have watched the brown anole over many years and seen how they move in short quick jumps that make them more obvious than the greens that move so smoothly they almost seem like a wave moving through a tube temporairly in the shape of a lizard. For this reason any place out and open will sport the Cuban variety but in thick vegetation they cannot hunt or display comfortably, while the greens do very well there and are much harder to see. While where there are no Cuban species the greens take advantage of the more open areas, they manage to divide the ecosystem much better than would seem at first glance. So between the different movements where the Cuban species is very quickly noticed and the greens hard to spot when looking at them, as well as the much thicker preferred habitat of the greens it would take quite a study to get a true picture of their relative abundance.
Your voice reminds me of Professor Brian Cox! If he spoke a bit faster :)
You should do Louisiana
Broooo we need that Louisiana invasive species 🤞🏾
You need to do a video on Nutria and Wild Pigs.
Is it really an invasive species if its natural range is just increasing like the iguanas moving up from Mexico?
3 times the size of UK? I'd say almost 5 times.