Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Deliberately Introduced Species
Purple loosestrife
European starling
African honeybee
(“Killer bee”)
Nutria
Salt cedar
(Tamarisk)
Marine toad
(Giant toad)
Water hyacinth
Japanese beetle
Hydrilla
European wild boar
(Feral pig)
Accidentally Introduced Species
Sea lamprey
(attached to lake trout)
Argentina fire ant
Brown tree snake
Eurasian ruffe
Common pigeon
(Rock dove)
Formosan termite
Zebra mussel
Asian long-horned beetle
Asian tiger mosquito
Gypsy moth larvae
Figure 9-11
Threats to natural capital:
some nonnative species that have been deliberately or accidentally
introduced into the United States.
