What Invasive Species Are In Your Area?

[awhuber]

possums...

[drew03cmc]

...autumn olive, earthworms, most of the fruit trees in North America, most of the flowers around your house, Asian clam, zebra mussel, purple loosestrife, about half to a third of the sport fish in your lake including (depending on which reservoir you're fishing) northern pike, muskie, walleye, striped bass, wiper, common carp, silver carp, bighead carp, grass carp, black carp, snakeheads, rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, brown trout, pigeons, starlings, house sparrows, spiny water flea, fire ants, kudzu, garlic mustard, feral hogs, wild boar, gypsy moth, nutria....

Aren't you in Colorado? In that case, cutthroat aren't invasive, they belong in Colorado.

[Chief Grey Bear]

Aren't you in Colorado? In that case, cutthroat aren't invasive, they belong in Colorado.

Also, depending on your location, one would have to add the Smallmouth Bass.

[Feathers and Fins]

I saw a guy in a suit on the elk the other day I dang well know he is an invasive. Seriously; No beer in hand no beer belly not even yelling and screaming and didnt even bring along a hottie.

[Jack Jones]

small children without supervision at the trout parks.

[Flysmallie]

small children without supervision at the trout parks.

If you C&R a couple real quick they tend to scatter and stay away. You gotta get a solid hook set though.

[ness]

Aren't you in Colorado? In that case, cutthroat aren't invasive, they belong in Colorado.

Welp, there's more than one recognized subspecies of cutt in CO...3 IIRC: Greenback, Colorado River and Rio Grande. And they've been moved around some by you-know-who.

[dennis boatman]

Humans mostly

Well played...

[Gavin]

My backyard and lots of parks are overun with honeysuckle....plus I see lots of bradford pears where the shouldnt be around town.

[Tim Smith]

Aren't you in Colorado? In that case, cutthroat aren't invasive, they belong in Colorado.

Not so hasty young man. As Ness says, all cutthroats are not equal. There are four sub-species in Colorado.

During the greenback cutthroat trout recovery program, western slope cutthroat were unknowingly mixed with greenback cutthroat. That little gaffe just about wiped out all the greenbacks that are left.

A recent study found that the only pure blooded greenbacks left are on one stream at Pike's Peak.

http://wildlife.stat...ressRelease.pdf

Pretty sad stuff.

Many of the cutthroat where I live are stocked invaders....and ANY you have in Missouri are invaders...

...but I was speaking from a Midwestern perspective. If we were going to do Colorado invaders that list would be substantially longer. Brook trout, lake trout, kokanee, smallmouth bass, etc., etc.