Arthropods
This insect larvae burrows into living flesh and damage their host’s tissue by continuously tearing at it with their sharp mouth hooks, leading to infected wounds and even death.
New World Screwworm
This insect carries tapeworms that infect cats.
Cat fleas
This species was released in Australia in efforts to control the cane beetle population but have become notable pests that compete with and predate on native wildlife.
Cane Toad
These regions around the world, often based on modern and geologic formations, are broken down when an invasive is dispersed.
Wallace’s Realms
This is often the cheapest way to mitigate invasive species, but it requires effort ahead of time.
Prevention/Early Detection
This arthropod is the main vector of Theileriosis in wild and domestic bovids, causing anemia, difficulty breathing, reduced milk production, foamy nasal discharge, and even abortion.
Asian Longhorned Tick
This fungal disease grows on the skin of bats while they're hibernating, causing them to wake up more frequently.
White Nose Syndrome
This invasive species can be found globally and causes massive harm to local ecosystems through predation and disease transmission, like toxoplasmosis, and is responsible for the extinction of several species.
Feral Cats
This model of invasion describes when a species is introduced to an area, then jumps or is transported away from the invaded range to yet another new area.
Reaction-Diffusion
This method of mitigation was used to eradicate New World Screwworm from the United States and Mexico, until recently.
Sterile Insect Technique
This species indirectly harms animal health by killing hardwood trees, which reduces wildlife habitats and food sources.
Asian Longhorned Beetle
A single bite from the Asian tiger mosquito can transmit this virus, known for causing fever, joint pain, and large-scale outbreaks.
Dengue Virus
These large predators are considered generalists and eat a variety of native wildlife from reptiles, mammals, birds, and protected species like the endangered Key Largo wood rats. Because of their massive size, they have few natural predators except for humans.
Burmese Python
This species was seen floating on flood waters after Hurricane Harvey in 2017, highlighting how even mother nature can cause dispersal of an invasive.
Red Imported Fire Ants
This is when humans begin taking an invasive in as a pet or building statues to it, making mitigation especially difficult.
Cultural Adoption
This flying insect was introduced in the US in 1980s and is the primary vector for canine heartworm.
Asian Tiger Mosquito
This disease is carried by Culex mosquitoes from birds to horses, dogs, and cats.
West Nile Virus
This invasive species has been linked to an increase in mosquito populations because of their rooting and wallowing behaviors in mud and water, creating depressions that fill with stagnant water.
Feral Hogs
This newer tool using the power of machines and computers may be a more accurate way of predicting invasive spread.
AI/Neural Networks
This gene editing tool has been used to mitigate invasive insects by inducing mortality or sterility, but risks permanent alterations of the genome.
Crispr cas9
This winged insect is known for its highly aggressive and territorial behavior and causes issues by outcompeting native bee populations.
Africanized Honey Bee
This disease carried by sandflies infects much of our wildlife like coyotes, foxes, dogs, cats, and rodents.
Leishmaniasis
Introduced to the United States in the late 1800s, this avian species is known to aggressively compete with native birds for food and nesting sites.
European Starling
Cane Toads and Cone-heads exhibit this trait, enhancing their ability to invade especially on the “front line.”
Phenotypic Plasticity
This invasive species to Australia was mitigated using a virus in the 1950s, until the species grew resistant to it.
European Rabbit