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According to this article... Harlequin ladybirds declared UK’s fastest invading species – Biology Plus: News and Research
Another source suggests Signal crayfish alone cost about as much?
Yet another suggests Japanese knotweed alone costs the British economy £165m a year or £26 per person annually.
"Anglian Water alone spends around half a million pounds every year tackling the mayhem zebra mussels cause.
"That may seem like a lot of money to control such a tiny creature but that's nothing compared to the £1.7bn we spend every year combating alien species.
"From the grey squirrel, American crayfish, mink driving water voles from our river banks* and the small but scarily-named 'killer shrimp', a whole host of animals and plants are playing their part in colonising our countryside.
"Luckily of the 2,000 non-native species living among us, only a few hundred are actually harmful."
Defending UK from foreign species costs £26 per person - Telegraph
Only a few hundred are harmful? That's okay then! mg:
*and eating our fish stocks (mink)
Another source suggests Signal crayfish alone cost about as much?
Yet another suggests Japanese knotweed alone costs the British economy £165m a year or £26 per person annually.
"Anglian Water alone spends around half a million pounds every year tackling the mayhem zebra mussels cause.
"That may seem like a lot of money to control such a tiny creature but that's nothing compared to the £1.7bn we spend every year combating alien species.
"From the grey squirrel, American crayfish, mink driving water voles from our river banks* and the small but scarily-named 'killer shrimp', a whole host of animals and plants are playing their part in colonising our countryside.
"Luckily of the 2,000 non-native species living among us, only a few hundred are actually harmful."
Defending UK from foreign species costs £26 per person - Telegraph
Only a few hundred are harmful? That's okay then! mg:
*and eating our fish stocks (mink)