Invasive Species Council of Manitoba

Early Detection and Rapid Response

Early detection is a comprehensive, integrated system of active or passive surveillance to find and verify the identity of new invasive species as early after entry as possible, when eradication and control are still feasible and less costly. It may be targeted at areas where introductions are likely, such as near pathways of introduction; or sensitive ecosystems where impacts are likely to be great or invasion is likely to be rapid. In Manitoba these speceis have been placed into two categories; Category 1 and Category 2.

There are other terrestrial plant species as well as invertebrates and fungi listed that are not part of the EDRR list

Category 1 -Manitoba Wide Alert Weeds

Priority Early Detection Invasive Plant Species

Criteria for listing:

- These invasive plants are not present in Manitoba, but maybe present in cultivation[1] but not yet known to have escaped, and/or

- If listed as a Manitoba Noxious Weed, and/or

- If on the List of Pests Regulated in Canada and

- Capable of establishing in Manitoba based upon climate variables

- A pathway of introduction exists

- Easily identifiable with available resources

Minimum Management Criteria (MMC):

- Eradication is first option if detected and if feasible.

- A lead agency should be identified and a management committee formed to develope an eradication strategy

- An education and awareness program is required

- Provincial ban on sale and trade. Species may be moved to next category if found in Manitoba

[1] Cultivated as a garden plant, for ornamental horticulture, water ponds or gardens, for lawns; and is outside its natural range.

 

Category 1 Plants

Common Crupina

Diffuse Knapweed

Diffuse Knapweed

Jointed Goat Grass

Kudzu Vine

Mile-a-minute Weed

Paterson's Curse

Purple Nutsedge

Russian Knapweed

Salt Cedar

Spotted Knapweed

Spotted Knapweed

Woolly Cupgrass

Yellow Starthistle

Yellow Starthistle

Category 2 - Localized Presence - Manitoba Weed Alerts

Criteria for listing:

- These invasive plants are present in Manitoba and

- Capable of further spread and

- Pathways for spread are present and

- Easily identifiable with available resources

Minimum Management Criteria (MMC):

- Eradication is first option, when feasible

- Containment and control programs are second option

- Education and awareness programs to foster prevention

- A response plan is available or under development

 

Category 2 - Plants

Blue Weed

Bouncing Bet

Common Tansy

Common Tansy

Dalmatian Toadflax

Downy Brome

Downy Brome

European Buckthorn

European Buckthorn

Field Scabious

Flowering Rush

Flowering Rush

Himalayan Balsam

Invasive Phragmities

Japanese Brome

Japanese Brome

Leafy Spurge

Leafy Spurge

Nodding Thistle

Nodding Thistle

Ox-eye Daisy

Oxeye Daisy

Purple Loosestrife

Purple Loosestrife

Red Bartsia

Red Bartsia

Scentless Chamomile

Scentless Chamomile

St. John's Wort

Yellow Toadflax

Yellow Toadflax

Other Terrestrial Invasive Plants

Baby's Breath

Baby's Breath

Bird Vetch

Bird Vetch

Bull Thistle

Canada Thistle

Canada Thistle

Common Burdock


Cow Cockle

Creeping Bellflower

Dame's Rocket

Field Bindweed

Garlic Mustard

Giant Hogweed

Hoary Alyssum

Hound's Tongue

Japanese Knotweed

Orange Hawkweed

Perennial Sow Thistle

Puncture Vine

Scotch Thistle

Tall Buttercup

Tansy Ragwort

White Cockle

INVERTEBRATES


Emerald Ash Borer

Emerald Ash Borer

Lily Leaf Beetle

Lily Leaf Beetle

FUNGI


Dutch Elm Disease Fungi

Dutch Elm Disease Fungi





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