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Default Squirrels in Britain

Blinky the Shark wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
>
>> Pennyaline wrote:
>>> modom (palindrome guy) wrote:
>>>
>>> <snipped the carnage>
>>>
>>>> Let us contemplate the image of "millions of squirrels
>>>> rampaging throughout England," and shudder.
>>> Let us contemplate the revised image of eating meat over there,
>>> and shudder.

>
> See sig.
>
>> In return we should immediately commence eating all the aliens
>> the Brits have gifted us with over the centuries: the red fox,
>> the grackle, the starling, the English sparrow, and the myriad
>> other immigrants that were brought in during colonial times to
>> ensure a "feel of home."

>
> The gypsy moth. I don't know where it came from, but I'm perfectly
> happy blaming the Brits for it.
>
>

I think the Japanese beetle came here via Britain too.