invasive species

If you'd like to see how drinking water and native species in Missouri could perish, you need to look in moss balls based on a new warning from the state.

It's happened again. The Missouri Department of Conservation has confirmed yet another invasive snakehead has been caught and this unwelcome invader can survive on the land, too.

A difficult year for trees in Wisconsin just became more challenging. There are new reports that a vicious invasive tree-killing beetle in Wisconsin that is putting millions of trees in the state at risk.

It's not a good summer to be a tree in Illinois. The Land of Lincoln is already experiencing an invasion of two cicada broods and now there's suddenly a new threat from an invasive bug that's been spotted in Illinois putting millions of trees in danger.

There are certain warning signs of Spring that you might have trouble. One is to see a tree in Missouri that is oozing sap. That could be a sign that a vicious invasive insect is present and causing issues for the ecosystem that could have bad consequences for much more than just the trees in your neighborhood.

I consider myself a natural-born skeptic and a new scientific paper won't be changing that outlook anytime soon. It makes a wild claim that feral hogs are actually good for Missouri.

I have good news and bad news. Well, it's mostly bad news, but there is a silver lining to a report that a species of wicked-looking venomous flying spiders are headed toward Missouri.

In case you didn't know, there's already a big problem with feral pigs in Missouri. A new report says that an even larger version of these swine is headed toward Missouri if something isn't done to stop them.

Invasive carp are a problem in virtually every Missouri river. There's one waterway in Missouri though that now has a lot less of these nasty fish as the state announced they have annihilated 38,000 pounds of them.

Well, it's happened yet again. An invasive fish that has been called a 'river monster' because of what it can do to native fish in Missouri has been found in the Show Me State again and this time in a completely different area. This fish can even survive slithering on land.