The Caucasus a hinged invades the field of a resident of Bromont

A resident of Bromont had a very unpleasant surprise when she came across a crash of the Caucasus, an invasive exotic plant, on the grounds of her home.

Louise Paquette is 88 years old and suffered serious skin burns following contact with this plant.

Recall that contact with the sap of this plant can, in some cases, lead to hospitalization. In the sun, his toxins can even worsen the injuries caused.

For the past few years, I have killed a lot because I have made it clear, but there, I don’t want to touch this anymore, supports Ms. Paquette. Every time I go, I come back home then I still have bubbles. You know, I put long sleeves and I have gloves too, but I would also have to put elastic bands around my sleeves.

I said to myself: I won’t go injure in that.

The Domaine de Louise Paquette, as the newspaper first reported The Voice of the Eastis invaded by Caucasus Berces. The plants profiled in sight near the river that crosses its land.

Note that over the years, the Caucasus crash plants introduced in Quebec have reproduced quickly and have spread throughout the province.

The seeds are transported among other things by rivers and in the floors, sometimes over very long distances. At Louise Paquette, deer is the main cause of proliferation.

The deer, as they eat the seeds of the Caucasus cradles, they do their needs in the river and that is why the berces fell there, explains Louise Paquette. This river, it falls into the Yamaska river.

An intervention of the expected city

Louise Paquette asks the city of Bromont to intervene before the proliferation of this invasive species became too serious. The city also says that it takes this situation seriously.

The City works in collaboration with accredited organizations to effectively identify targeted plants and implement the necessary measures in order to stem the proliferationshe says in writing.

Regarding private terrains, Bromont rather focuses on awareness.

Note that the crash of the Caucasus proliferates all over the region, among others in Racine and Valcourt.

To eradicate the plants, it is recommended to remove them at their juvenile stage. However, it is rather difficult to identify the plant which has still not flowered, especially since the uprooting of the roots of a plant requires a protective dress and a lot of time.

Quadra Environnement, a company that specializes in the fight against pervasive exotic species, had to intervene several times in Estrie.

After the floral stadium, the flowers will be ranged, will turn into seeds, then at that time, we can cut the umbels. If we eliminate these seeds in a safe way, on the one hand, we know that the plant will have been unable to reproduce, then it will have reached a stage where it will run out, because the crash of the Caucasus is a plant that will produce flowering all its lifeexplains Nicolas Trottier, president of the quadra environment.

There are also herbicides to eradicate this plant.

The approved herbicide that would be the most effective is glyphosate. It is very effective, but it is a toxic substance for the environment.

I do not recommend the use of these treatments after June because plants become too imposing, so it takes much more herbicide to eliminate a plant than if we were doing an intervention very early in May, specifies Nicolas Trottier. There is a drift effect which will have an impact on the rest of the vegetation that we want to avoid too.

This specialist indicates that the boiler-appalanches and Laurentides regions are also particularly affected by the invasion of the Caucasus berces.

Moreover, the Rivière Chaudière basin committee led a project called over three years The regional control offensive [contre] Caucasus a hinged.

Several organizations of watersheds in the region participated and a report indicates that the efforts have borne fruit. Using reports and awareness among the population, between 2022 and 2024, more than 160,000 crash plants of the Caucasus were eradicated.