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OLD WORLD CLIMBING FERN

Getting Atop Climbing Fern

THE POTENTIAL OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL TO MANAGE OLD WORLD CLIMBING FERN (LYGODIUM MICROPHYLLUM), AND INVASIVE WEED IN FLORIDA.

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Fighting the Old World Climbing Fern

It's being called the most troublesome exotic plant ever to invade Florida: The Old World Climbing Fern was virtually unknown here until the late 1970s, and Environmental Scientist Mike Bodle says it now tops the charts for concern (Mike Bodle, Senior Environmental Scientist, South Florida Water Management District)...

Florida's invasive plant specialists have a new enemy: The Old World Climbing Fern. Environmental Scientist Mike Bodle says what was merely a decorative vine-like fern as recently as the late 1970s, has grown to the state's number one plant invader, today...

For most of Florida's invasive nuisance plants--Australian Pine, Melaleuca or Brazilian Pepper--Scientists have to look back 70 years or more to determine when the plants came to Florida. But a new problem plant called the Old World Climbing Fern is a much more recent phenomenon. Environmental Scientist Mike Bodle...

Climbing Fern out of Control

Exotic plant specialists in Florida say a vine-like plant called the Old World Climbing Fern is growing out of control across much of the southern part of the state. The fern can virtually smother a Cypress forest --eliminating critical wetland habitat for wildlife. Environmental Scientist Mike Bodle says the only thing found to work so far is application of a plant poison...

Attacking the Old World Climbing Fern

Efforts to control a prolific plant invading South Florida have met with limited success. Using herbicide on the Old World Climbing Fern would mean crews and equipment in the most remote parts of South Florida wetlands. Environmental scientist Mike Bodle says a more likely solution might be a biological enemy from the plant's native lands of Africa and Asia...