Many kinds of harmful invasive species enter and spread throughout the United States on land or in water through various pathways.
Non-native plants, animals, algae, fungus, or disease-causing microorganisms are capable of causing severe damage to the economy, environment and human health, once they invade enough area outside their normal habitat, according to the U.S. Forest service .
Common invasive species in the U.S. include the emerald ash borer, feral swine, zebra and quagga mussels, kudzu vine, cheatgrass, hemlock woolly adelgid, white-nose syndrome fungal pathogen, lionfish, bufflegrass, Asian carp, garlic mustard, leafy spurge, Sirex woodwasp, Burmese python, Japanese knotweed and many […]
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