Invasive Species

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Invasive Species

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Invasive Species

Introduced species: any organism that was brought to an ecosystem as the result of human actions

Invasive species: A species that takes advantage of an unoccupied niche, or that successfully out-competes native species

Kudzu:

an invasive vine

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U.S. Invasive Aquatic Plants

Partial list:

Brazilian Waterweed Caulerpa, Mediterranean Clone Common Reed Eurasian Watermilfoil Didymo Giant Reed Giant Salvinia Hydrilla Melaleuca Purple Loosestrife Water Chestnut Water Hyacinth Water Lettuce Water Spinach

Hydrilla

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U.S. Invasive Aquatic Animals

Partial list:

Alewife New Zealand Mud Snail Northern Snakehead Asian Carps Nutria Asian Swamp Eel Quagga Mussel Bullfrog Round Goby Chinese Mitten Crab Rusty Crayfish Eurasian Ruffe Sea Lamprey European Green Crab Sea Squirt Flathead Catfish Spiny Water Flea Lionfish Veined Rapa Whelk

Zebra Mussel

Zebra Mussel

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U.S. Invasive Invertebrates

Partial list:

Africanized Honeybee Asian Citrus Psyllid Asian Long-Horned Beetle Asian Tiger Mosquito Cactus Moth Emerald Ash Borer European Gypsy Moth European Spruce Bark Beetle Formosan Subterranean Termite Giant African Snail Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Light Brown Apple Moth Mediterranean Fruit Fly Mexican Fruit Fly Pink Hibiscus Mealybug Red Imported Fire Ant Russian Wheat Aphid Silverleaf Whitefly Sirex Woodwasp Soybean Cyst Nematode

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U.S. Invasive Vertebrates

Partial list: At Risk of Widespread

Brown Tree Snake Intrusion Cane Toad Constrictor snakes European Starling Boiga snakes Wild Boar Gambian pouch rat

House Sparrow

Nutria

European Starling

Cane Toad

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U.S. Invasive Plants

Yellow Star Thistle

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U.S. Invasive Microbes

Animal Pathogens

Avian Influenza Exotic Newcastle Disease Fowlpox Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia West Nile Virus Whirling Disease

Plant Pathogens

Citrus Canker Citrus Greening Plum Pox Southern Bacterial Wilt Soybean Rust Sudden Oak Death

West Nile Virus

Citrus Canker