Invasive Species Council of Metro Vancouver
1025 Boundary Road V5K 4T2 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Join us for a Community Art Plant workshop series this spring. Learn about local plants and how to identify, photograph and draw them! Sign up for all 3 free virtual workshops at http://www.iscmv.ca/events/ At the first workshop on April 21 at 6PM, learn how to identify and safely collect common plants in your neighbourhood. Everyone welcome! This Project has been supported through the Neighbourhood Matching Fund of the Vancouver Park Board.

Our friends at the Fraser Valley Invasive Species Society are hosting a free webinar on invasive smallmouth bass on April 12.

It's that time of year when residents can be watching for the honeybee predator, Asian giant hornets, which have been found in previous years in the southern part of the region, scattered between Abbotsford, Langley and White Rock. BC officials are increasing the number of Asian giant hornet traps set along the border with Washington state and asking for help from residents to do the same in an effort to track and destroy the invasive species. If you think you have seen an Asian giant hornet, submit a photo of the insect to bcinvasives.ca/report, or call the Invasive Species Council of BC at 1-888-933-3722.

Here's an update on the invasive mussel-infested moss situation - mussels were found in multiple stores in BC.

An alert from our neighbours to the South - zebra mussels were recently found in shipments of aquarium plants (mossballs) sold at pet stores. The Government of British Columbia (Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy) is currently working with US colleagues and Canadian federal colleagues to find out if any shipments have come to Canada.