INVASIVE SPECIES IN INDIANA

INVASIVE SPECIES IN INDIANA

• Feral Hog
• Various hybrids that have either been illegally released or were formerly domestic pigs allowed to become feral throughout many states, including Indiana
• Wild hogs can cause significant damage to property, destroy wildlife habitat, and can carry a number of diseases that can be transferred to domestic swine or to other animals
• A landowner, tenant, or other person with written permission of the landowner can shoot or trap a wild hog on that landowner’s private property

INVASIVE SPECIES IN INDIANA

• Mute Swan
• From Europe
• They destroy both underwater plants and plants at the water’s edge, so they affect food supply
• Many states enforce removal policies for mute swans, including Indiana

INVASIVE SPECIES IN INDIANA

• Japanese Beetle
• From Japan
• These insects damage plants by skeletonizing the foliage
• On field crops such as squash, floating row covers can be used to exclude the beetles

INVASIVE SPECIES IN INDIANA

• Kudzu
• From Southern Japan and Southeast China
• A noxious weed that climbs over trees or shrubs and grows so rapidly, it kills them by heavy shading
• You can get rid of them but stem cutting after spraying with herbicides

INVASIVE SPECIES IN INDIANA

• Round Goby
• Found in parts of Eurasia including the Black Sea and Caspian Sea
• Eat eggs of other fish and out compete most native fish
• One way to try to stop the spread of round gobies is to create better federal or regional regulations regarding ballast water exchange