The hollow pith confirms this is invasive honeysuckle and not the native honeysuckle species.
Invasive honeysuckle bushes are leafing out in Jericho. Maeve and I joined a resident of the Tillotson Drive community for three hours on Monday, April 18 to cut down Invasive Honeysuckle in the field area near the pond.
Invasive plants are filling in, displacing, and replacing Vermont's historic habitat while upsetting the ecosystems we are all reliant upon. Some (like knotweed) are extremely difficult to manage. Honeysuckle at least gives us a fighting chance. We can at least diminish its chance to spread by cutting it down and preventing it from going to seed.
Sean Beckett, Director of Natural History Programming at North Branch Nature Center reminds us "It's imperative that we protect our biodiversity. Ecologically, we are indeed waging a war to remove plants that are devastating our local ecology."
Our sense of place, as well as our health and well-being and that of nature, are in danger of disintegrating.
Cut down invasive honeysuckle. Put a notch on your belt for each one you cut down. Write our history of tomorrow today. Let it say we in Jericho took action as good stewards of the land.
View the Vermont invasive web page to become more familiar with the plants that are recognized as invasive and how to tell them apart from the plants that are part of Vermont's historic habitat. Learn what harm they cause, and how we can manage them.
Bird predation is high when they nest in invasive honeysuckle due in part that most of the leaves are on the outside of the bush, so predators can easily walk under the bush and look up and see the bird's nest.
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