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The creeping aquatic alien 'invasion' threatening to smother a popular N.Wales lake

Caernarfon and Denbeigh Herald

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July 02, 2025

A CREEPING “invasion” has been threatening to smother one of Wales’s most popular lakes.

- Owen Hughes

Lagarosiphon major, also known as curly waterweed, is an invasive aquatic plant that can rapidly grow and spread - potentially dominating and “smothering” lakes.

It is from South Africa and is so bad that it was put on the EU’s List of Invasive Alien Species in 2016. This means it’s against the law to sell this plant or throw it away in nature.

Despite these rules it had taken hold at Llyn Padarn, Llanberis.

This could have been brought to the area from places like the Lake District, where it has been an issue.

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