Ten invasive species of the Chesapeake Bay

Spongy moth...spud...is...cute

Great list, helped me with my Life Science project.

This helped a lot with my project

Great list, Im using it for a school project thanks.

This is really cool. We are doing an ecosystem project in my class, and I think I might do one of these species.

some are cute some eh

This is really cool. We are doing an ecosystem project in my class, and I think I might do one of these species.

Many plants could be on this list as well. Think of just the vines English ivy, porcelain berry, kudzu, etc. pulling down or smothering trees. Or all the non-native shrubs and grasses that landscapers and homeowners plant that our native birds and insects don’t recognize as food creating huge swathes of land they won’t be able to survive in. We can do so much better!

Is snakehead not there?

some of them are cute

before fixing the ocean we need to change our self's first

Humans should be on this list

i love this

English ivy should be on this list. It killed two whole trees in my back yard.

Wow there are a lot of species! At my school camp we ripped out wineberries because they were invasive. It hurt!

This is not a full list of every invasive that is found in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. You are correct - the wineberry is considered invasive by every state in the watershed and the District of Columbia. For more information, please visit the Maryland Invasive Species Council: http://mdinvasives.org/iotm/sept-2006/

Are wine berries on here? We had to rip wine berries out at a camp by the Chesapeake bay.

I am doing a project on this it is cool

This is COOL

I have seen sevral nutrias swimming in Shady Side, where can we report ? Is there a phone number ? 8/20/18

much nice. i very like the nutria. gud pic.

We should kill them all. Show no mercy! They disrupt our ecosystem, we disrupt their life. We ought to have competitions to see who can kill the most invasive species. If they competitions become popular, it can solve all our problems.

new info for me

Thanks for the information.

Very good blog post.Really thank you! Fantastic. ceebeaeadefa

wow

in order to fix the problems in the water, we have to fix ourselves first

We've have go back to fix this mess!!!

hi :)

Hi Ray,

The Asian carp has not been found in the Bay or its tributaries, but it has caused problems in the Mississippi River (and some fear it has reached the Great Lakes). You can read more about the Asian carp here: http://www.bayjournal.com/article/officials_swap_stories_of_battle_against_invasive_species

We sell frozen green crabs for bait, a lot of our fishermen have said they can purchase them alive. We understand they were an invasive species to Virginia waters.

Is the invasive Asian carp found in the Bay and its tributaries? I had the misfortune of experiencing them in some southern rivers.

Jenna,

Nice summary of these species. I was drawn to the headline just to see which ones you guys picked. Good choices, though, as you know the list goes on.

Kent
Former CBPO Senior Scientist, Bay Journal Columnist

Very interesting.