Katrina Gulliver

Harlequin ladybird, fly away home

Imported species have an alarming tendency to create environmental chaos, as Dan Eatherley explains

issue 06 July 2019

  • Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals from Over There that are Over Here

    Dan Eatherley

    Collins, pp. 320

I was shocked some years ago to discover, as I scratched bites on my ankles on holiday on Maui, that mosquitoes are not native to Hawaii. They first arrived in the 1820s, in barrels of water from a visiting ship. Of course, the climate was perfect for them, and they settled in very happily.

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