What is an Invasive Species?
This is a plant or animal that does not belong in an area and can cause harm.
What is an invasive species?
This fast-growing vine covers trees and is called “the vine that ate the South.”
What is kudzu?
This colorful bug with red wings harms trees.
What is the spotted lanternfly?
Invasive species can make it hard for native animals to find this.
What is food?
You should NOT move this from place to place because it can carry invasive insects.
What is firewood?
Invasive species come from this type of place.
What is a different place?
This plant smells sweet but can take over forests.
What is Japanese honeysuckle?
This shiny green beetle kills ash trees.
What is the emerald ash borer?
They can take over habitats, leaving little ______ for other plants.
What is space?
If you see a strange bug, you should tell this person.
What is a teacher or an adult?
Invasive species often grow or spread very ______.
What is fast?
This bush is often used as a hedge but spreads quickly in Tennessee.
What is privet?
This fuzzy caterpillar eats lots of leaves on trees.
What is the spongy moth?
Some insects kill trees by eating their ______.
What is bark or leaves?
Cleaning your shoes and clothes after hiking helps stop ______
What is spreading seeds or insects?
These species can hurt native plants and animals. What does “native” mean?
What is living there naturally?
This invasive tree is a favorite food of the spotted lanternfly.
What is Tree of Heaven?
This insect sucks sap from hackberry trees.
What is the hackberry aphid?
When trees die, animals can lose their ______.
What is homes?
People can remove invasive plants to help protect ______ plants.
What is native plants?
True or False: All new plants are invasive.
What is false?
What do invasive plants do to native plants?
What is they take their space, sunlight, and water?
What do many invasive insects eat from plants?
What is leaves or sap?
Why is it bad if one species takes over everything?
What is it reduces biodiversity (or fewer types of living things)?
Name one way to help stop invasive species.
What is having clean gear, not moving firewood, reporting insects, or removing plants?