5 Of The Worst Invasive Species From The US

On this channel i have made many different videos on problem invasive species. In these invasive species videos i normally focus on a certain area and go through a few species that are invasive there. This video will be a little different as i will be going through 5 american species that are great at invading the rest of the world. Many american creatures make great invasive species and in todays video i will be going through just a few as i will be going through 5 of the worst american invaders.

Attributions

Red eared slider images:
Betta.1
(CC BY-SA 2.0)
J. N. Stuart
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Toshihiro Gamo
(CC BY 2.0)
pepperberryfarm
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Jacob McGinnis
(CC BY-NC 2.0)
Allan Hack
(CC BY-ND 2.0)
Jim & Robin Kunze
(CC BY-NC 2.0)
Paul Kretek
(CC BY 2.0)
Toshihiro Gamo
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Largemouth bass images:
NYS DEC
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Mrs. Gemstone
(CC BY-SA 2.0)
Roger Smith
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Signal crayfish images:
Josefine S. (Protected by Pixsy)
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Andrew Reding
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

American Mink images:
Nicole Beaulac
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
linda hall
(CC BY-NC 2.0)
Jon Cox
(CC BY-NC 2.0)
Patrick Reijnders
(CC BY-SA 3.0)
Deborah Freeman
(CC BY-SA 2.0)

Raccoon images:
Emmanuel Faz
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Robert Engberg
(CC BY 2.0)
Glenn Beltz
(CC BY 2.0)
Photo Cindy
(CC0 1.0)
Jen Goellnitz
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
zoofanatic
(CC BY 2.0)

Raccoon footage:
Watchcaddy
(CC BY-NC 2.0)
Greg Schechter
(CC BY 2.0)
Jim Mullhaupt
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
USFWS Mountain-Prairie
(CC BY 2.0)
GoToVan
(CC BY 2.0)
Sherwood411
(CC BY-NC 2.0)
James
James Cunkle
Frank Starmer
Zick kiey

Red eared slider footage:
D6 Nature
Steven Severinghaus
Grendelkhan
(CC BY-SA 4.0)

Largemouth bass footage:
Twitch Fishing
Gteam Outdoors
UnderWaterLife4K
shawn o'shea

Signal crayfish footage:
Jarek Andrzejewski
Mark Philpott
(CC BY-NC 2.0)
Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington
(CC BY 2.0)

American mink footage:
Crafty Creatures
Alain Fossé
Dzīvnieku brīvība
Katmai National Park and Preserve
(CC BY 2.0)
SOVLANRUS

Otter footage:
Stephen de Vere

Water vole footage:
A Shot Of Wildlife

Bulleye snakehead footage:
FishinFlorida

Painted turtle image:
Richard George
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Broad-shelled river turtle image:
Sam Fraser-Smith
(CC BY 2.0)

[racher]

The bass thing is funny. Here in the northeast US our large mouth bass population is being destroyed by asian brown carp. The irony is palpable.

[fishmob]

The irony of Rascal the Raccoon was that the show itself was about how trying to domesticate a racoon was more trouble than it was worth and how they should simply be left as wild animals. Funny how this made people want them as pets.

[nickiethefool]

I had red ear sliders once, they got too big an eventually we gave them to one of my dad’s coworkers who said they owned a pond. Two years ago, i learnt that they didnt owned a pond and they just released them in a pond/wetland area that was nearby. I apologize in advance for my families negligence.

[hsdinoman]

“Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

[bonecanoe]

Interesting idea for a video: Species that are locally extinct in the eastern U.S. but may be beneficial to be re-introduced.

[DevynPlaysGames]

sliders are native where I live, and the amount of flattened baby turtles on the road is astounding sometimes, despite there only being a small drainage canal nearby

[DanglingwithDietrik]

To add to the Largemouth Bass slander, one of the two heaviest weighed ones has been caught out of Japan and they credit it to Japan already trying to remove them for some time and the survivors got so much more food they just went crazy. That one fish was 22lb 5oz and as a northern USA angler my biggest Largemouth Bass caught is right around 5lb... that's scary

[gregoryschmidt]

Here in the states we tend to think of Asia as the source of the most nasty invasive species. Interesting to see that North American species are just as capable of wreaking havoc elsewhere.

[scottlepak]

A POULTRY farmer introduced raccoons into the surrounding environment... Something about that just does not add up.

[jhill]

The signal crayfish is native here in the Pacific Northwest, and, ironically, is threatened by invasive crayfish species. The signal crayfish has nearly displaced the native crayfish in the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz California.

[MrEScience]

Camping in Minnesota (north central US) as a child I remember all of us waking up to a bunch of noise and coming out of our tents at 5am to a gaggle of probably 10 raccoons working as a team untying my dad's boat cover pulling it off and opening our cooler which we stashed in there... they just stared at us for a minute and then continued raiding us until we started yelling and chased them off. Very smart animals and almost too cute and human-like to get mad at.

[SikenServent]

When I was in stationed in Sasebo (2011-2014) raccoons were everywhere, almost made me feel like I was back home in western Pennsylvania

[jonahmontgomery]

As someone from America, who has come across raccoons so many times, I can't believe anyone would want one of those mean, oversized rats as a pet

[megansawyer]

I had a pet red-eared slider. I remember once I was watching a reality show episode filmed in Japan and there was a close-up of a red-eared slider in a botanical garden, which struck me funny because I knew they were native to where I live in the US. I looked it up and apparently they caused such a huge problem in Japan that their import was banned in the country.

[RJHDale]

I lived in Japan for a few years. There were red eared sliders all over Kyoto and Nagoya.

[theotheseaeagle]

I personally think that a cull of mink might be necessary in the UK, they are having a detrimental impact on our waterways, completely eradicating waterbirds, amphibians, fish as well as the endangered watervole. I also think something should be done about sliders to, as they are another invasive species in the UK, and while not being as detrimental as mink can still cause declines in bird and fish populations

[Howie]

I am a little bit older (62) but I remember back in the early 1960's you could buy South American caimans at a local drugstore. Never heard any stories about them being released in the wild and growing to large sizes. On a side note, the Colorado river is now infested with invasive zebra mussels. A native American fish, the redear, also known as the shellcracker, is capable of eating these mussels and are now reaching tremendous sizes for their species. A world record redear of over 6 pounds was caught at lake Havasu. A huge redear would normally be 1 or 2 pounds.

[LaurenSchraderMusic]

I have been semi-binging this channel for over a month now, only just noticed that you've barely got 50k subscribers... I LOVE this channel, can't imagine how big it's gonna be in another year!

[mitchellskene]

Here's an idea for a video "Creatures that's are technically invasive, by definition, but have been where they are for so long, they are considered native." For example, The Dingo.

[SavageOO]

Great video, I'm an avid outdoorsman that struggles with invasive species in the US and I've often wondered which of our native species were problematic elsewhere. I had heard about the raccoon and mink already, but the others were news to me.