An interesting bit of trivia...or well #funfact, though maybe fun isn't the right word, since it's about a potentially cascading ecological catastrophe...is the fact that for most of North America (specifically the bit under the prehistoric glaciation) there were no earthworms until Europeans introduced them....so...yep, those lovely nightcrawlers... #invasivespecies. They disrupt nutrient cycling and hydrology and increase flow rates, decalcifying the soil strata...
Have to say, the #animal rights people that are so far afield from actual wildlife #biology, that they advocate and suggest a means of eliminating #predation from the #natural cycle are...scarily similar to the eugenicists of the turn of the 20th century, that evolved into the fascists of the early 20th century... what with genetically modifying animals to control populations to the point of extinction...these people are absolutely bonkers....