Northern Kentucky Project: View of Bush Honeysuckle Infestation Pre-treatment - Pt. 2

May 30, 2024

To continue from previous video, this shows the growing floor beneath a bush honeysuckle (Lonicera spp.) infestation. Bush honeysuckle outcompetes and chokes out the understory growing space from the native species. Once established, it reduces sunlight so thoroughly, that anything but the most shade tolerant plants are unable to grow. Without mechanical removal of large established shrubs the ground floor of a forest will struggle until some natural disterbance takes place. This reduces bio-diversity to the extreme.