This is a list of invasive species

Invasive species

"Invasive species", or invasive exotics, is a nomenclature term and categorization phrase used for flora and fauna, and for specific restoration-preservation processes in native habitats, with several definitions....

 in North America

North America

North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

. A species is regarded as invasive if it has been introduced by human action to a location, area, or region where it did not previously occur naturally (i.e., is not a native species), becomes capable of establishing a breeding population in the new location without further intervention by humans, and becomes a pest in the new location, directly threatening agriculture or the local biodiversity

Biodiversity

Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet. Biodiversity is a measure of the health of ecosystems. Biodiversity is in part a function of climate. In terrestrial habitats, tropical regions are typically rich whereas polar regions...

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The term invasive species refers to a subset of those species defined as introduced species

Introduced species

An introduced species — or neozoon, alien, exotic, non-indigenous, or non-native species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its indigenous or native distributional range, and has arrived in an ecosystem or plant community by human activity, either deliberate or accidental...

. If a species has been introduced but remains local, and is not problematic to agriculture or to the local biodiversity, then it cannot be considered to be invasive, and does not belong on this list.

Plants

• Acroptilon repens (Russian knapweed)
• Ailanthus altissima (chouchun, tree of heaven)
• Albizia julibrissin
  Albizia julibrissin
  Albizia julibrissin is a species of legume in the genus Albizia, native to southwestern and eastern Asia, from Persia east to China and Korea...
  
  (Persian silk tree, pink siris)
• Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard, hedge garlic)
• Ardisia crenata (coral bush, coralberry)
• Arundo donax
  Arundo donax
  Arundo donax, Giant Cane, is a tall perennial cane growing in damp soils, either fresh or moderately saline. Other common names include Carrizo, Arundo, Spanish cane, Wild cane, and Giant reed....
  
  (giant reed, Spanish cane)
• Berberis thunbergii
  Berberis thunbergii
  Berberis thunbergii is a species of Berberis, native to Japan and eastern Asia....
  
  (Japanese barberry, Thunberg's barberry)
• Bromus tectorum (downy brome, drooping brome)
• Butomus umbellatus (flowering rush, grass rush)
• Carduus nutans (musk thistle, nodding thistle)
• Casuarina equisetifolia
  Casuarina equisetifolia
  Casuarina equisetifolia is a she-oak species of the genus Casuarina. The native range extends from Burma and Vietnam throughout Malesia east to French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu, and south to Australia...
  
  (Australian pine, Filao tree)
• Caulerpa taxifolia
  Caulerpa taxifolia
  Caulerpa taxifolia is a species of seaweed, an alga of the genus Caulerpa. Native to the Indian Ocean, it has been widely used ornamentally in aquariums. The alga has a stem which spreads horizontally just above the seafloor, and from this stem grow vertical fern-like pinnae, whose blades are flat...
  
  ("killer algae")
• Centaurea diffusa (diffuse knapweed, white knapweed)
• Centaurea maculosa
  Centaurea maculosa
  Centaurea maculosa, the spotted knapweed, is a species of Centaurea native to eastern Europe.It has been introduced to North America, where it is considered an invasive plant species in much of the western United States and Canada. In 2000, C. maculosa occupied more than in the US.Knapweed is a...
  
  (spotted knapweed)
• Centaurea solstitialis (yellow cockspur, yellow starthistle)
• Cinnamomum camphora (camphor laurel, camphor tree)
• Colocasia esculenta
  Colocasia esculenta
  Colocasia esculenta is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms, the root vegetables whose many names include Taro and Eddoe. It is believed to be one of the earliest cultivated plants.-Description:Rhizomes of different shapes and sizes...
  
  (wild taro)
• Commelina communis
  Commelina communis
  Commelina communis, commonly known as the Asiatic dayflower, is an herbaceous annual plant in the dayflower family. It is native throughout much of East Asia and northern parts of Southeast Asia. In China, the plant is known as yazhicao , roughly translating to "duckfoot herb", while in Japan it...
  
  (Asiatic blue dayflower)
• Conium maculatum
  Conium
  Conium is a genus of two species of highly poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to Europe and the Mediterranean region as Conium maculatum, and to southern Africa as Conium chaerophylloides....
  
  (poison hemlock)
• Cortaderia selloana (pampas grass)
• Cosmos sulphureus
  Cosmos sulphureus
  Cosmos sulphureus is also known as Sulfur Cosmos and Yellow Cosmos. Its native habitat is Central America.This species of Cosmos is considered a half-hardy annual, although plants may re-appear via self-sowing for several years. Its foliage is opposite and pinnately divided. The plant height varies...
  
  (sulfur cosmos, yellow Cosmos)
• Cynanchum louisae
• Cynanchum rossicum
  Cynanchum rossicum
  Cynanchum rossicum is a flowering plant of the milkweed family. It is a perennial herb native to southern Europe. It has several common names including swallowwort, pale swallowwort, and dog-strangling vine.-Characteristics:...
  
  (dog-strangling vine, swallowwort)
• Cytisus scoparius
  Cytisus scoparius
  Cytisus scoparius, the Common Broom and Scotch Broom, syn. Sarothamnus scoparius, is a perennial leguminous shrub native to western and central Europe,....
  
  (common broom, Scotch broom)
• Dioscorea bulbifera
  Dioscorea bulbifera
  Dioscorea bulbifera, the Air potato, is a yam species. It is also known as Varahi in Sanskrit, Kaachil in Malayalam and Dukkar Kand in Marathi. The Air potato plant is native to Africa and Asia.-Description:...
  
  (air potato)
• Egeria densa
  Egeria densa
  Egeria densa is a species of Egeria native to warm temperate South America in southeastern Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.It is an aquatic plant growing in water up to 4 m deep, with trailings stems to 2 m or more long, producing roots at...
  
  (Brazilian waterweed, large-flowered waterweed)
• Eichhornia crassipes
  Eichhornia crassipes
  Eichhornia crassipes, commonly known as Common Water Hyacinth, is an aquatic plant native to the Amazon basin, and is often considered a highly problematic invasive species outside its native range.-Ecology:...
  
  (common water hyacinth)
• Elaeagnus angustifolia
  Elaeagnus angustifolia
  Elaeagnus angustifolia, commonly called silver berry, oleaster, Russian olive, or wild olive, is a species of Elaeagnus, native to western and central Asia, from southern Russia and Kazakhstan to Turkey and Iran...
  
  (Russian olive, Russian silverberry)
• Elaeagnus umbellata
  Elaeagnus umbellata
  Elaeagnus umbellata, also referred to as Japanese silverberry, umbellate oleaster or autumn-olive, is a species of Elaeagnus native to eastern Asia from the Himalayas east to Japan...
  
  (autumn olive, Japanese silverberry)
• Eucalyptus globulus
  Eucalyptus globulus
  The Tasmanian Blue Gum, Southern Blue Gum or Blue Gum, is an evergreen tree, one of the most widely cultivated trees native to Australia. They typically grow from 30 to 55 m tall. The tallest currently known specimen in Tasmania is 90.7 m tall...
  
  (southern blue gum, Tasmanian blue gum)
• Euonymus alata (burning bush, winged euonymus)
• Euonymus fortunei
  Euonymus fortunei
  Euonymus fortunei, also commonly known as winter creeper or wintercreeper and Fortune's spindle is a species of Euonymus native to east Asia, including China, Korea, Philippines and Japan....
  
  (winter creeper vine)
• Euphorbia esula (green spurge, leafy spurge)
• Fallopia japonica (fleeceflower, Japanese knotweed)
• Hedera helix
  Hedera helix
  Hedera helix is a species of ivy native to most of Europe and western Asia. It is labeled as an invasive species in a number of areas where it has been introduced.-Description:...
  
  (common ivy, English ivy)
• Heracleum mantegazzianum (giant cow parsley, giant hogweed)
• Hieracium aurantiacum (orange hawkweed, tawny hawkweed)
• Hydrilla verticillata (Esthwaite waterweed, hydrilla)
• Imperata cylindrica (cogon, cogongrass)
• Ligustrum sinense (Chinese privet)
• Ligustrum vulgare
  Ligustrum vulgare
  Ligustrum vulgare , is a species of Ligustrum native to central and southern Europe, north Africa and southwestern Asia, from southern England and southwestern Sweden south to Morocco, and east to Poland and northwestern Iran.It is a semi-evergreen or deciduous shrub, growing to 3 m...
  
  (European privet, wild privet)
• Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)
• Lonicera maackii
  Lonicera maackii
  Lonicera maackii is a species of honeysuckle in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to temperate Asia in northern and western China , Mongolia, Japan , Korea, and southeastern Russia .It is listed as an endangered species in Japan...
  
  (Amur honeysuckle)
• Lonicera morrowii (Morrow's honeysuckle)
• Lonicera tatarica
  Lonicera tatarica
  Lonicera tatarica is a species of honeysuckle known by the common name Tatarian honeysuckle. It is native to Siberia and other parts of eastern Asia, but it is probably better known in North America, where it is a widespread introduced species and noxious weed...
  
  (Tartarian honeysuckle)
• Lygodium japonicum
  Lygodium japonicum
  Lygodium japonicum is a species of fern that is known by the common name Japanese climbing fern. It is native to eastern Asia, including Japan, Korea, southeastern Asia, and India, and eastern Australia...
  
  (Japanese climbing fern)
• Lygodium microphyllum
  Lygodium microphyllum
  Lygodium microphyllum is a climbing fern originating in tropical Africa, South East Asia, Melanesia and Australia. It is an invasive weed in the US States of Florida and Alabama where it invades open forest and wetland areas...
  
  (Old World climbing fern, climbing maidenhair)
• Lysimachia nummularia
  Lysimachia nummularia
  Lysimachia nummularia is a low, creeping plant of the genus Lysimachia. It is commonly called Creeping Jenny, Moneywort, Herb Twopence and Twopenny grass.-Distribution:...
  
  (creeping Jenny, herb twopence, moneywort, twopenny grass)
• Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife, purple lythrum, spiked loosestrife)
• Melaleuca quinquenervia
  Melaleuca quinquenervia
  Melaleuca quinquenervia, commonly known as Niaouli or Broad-leaved paperbark or the Paper Bark Tea Tree, is a small- to medium-sized tree of the allspice family, Myrtaceae. The plant is native to New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea and coastal Eastern Australia, from Botany Bay in New South Wales...
  
  (broad-leaved paper bark, paper bark tea tree, niaouli)
• Melinis repens
  Melinis repens
  Melinis repens is a species of grass known by the common names rose Natal grass, or simply Natal grass, and Natal redtop. It is native to southern Africa but it is well known on other continents, including North America and Australia, as an introduced species and sometimes a noxious weed...
  
  (Natal grass, Natal redtop, rose Natal grass)
• Melia azedarach
  Melia azedarach
  Melia azedarach is a species of deciduous tree in the mahogany family, Meliaceae, that is native to Pakistan, India, Indochina Southeast Asia and Australia...
  
  ) (bead tree, ceylon cedar, Chinaberry, lunumidella, Persian lilac, white cedar)
• Microstegium vimineum
  Microstegium vimineum
  Microstegium vimineum, commonly known as Japanese stiltgrass or Nepalese browntop, is an annual grass that is common in a wide variety of habitats and is well adapted to low light levels.-Geographic range:...
  
  (Japanese stiltgrass, Nepalese browntop)
• Mimosa pudica
  Mimosa pudica
  Mimosa pudica , is a creeping annual or perennial herb often grown for its curiosity value: the compound leaves fold inward and droop when touched or shaken, re-opening minutes later...
  
  (humble plant, shameful plant, sensitive plant, sleeping grass, touch-me-not)
• Myriophyllum spicatum
  Myriophyllum spicatum
  Myriophyllum spicatum is a species of Myriophyllum native to Europe, Asia, and north Africa. It is a submerged aquatic plant, and grows in still or slow-moving water.-Description:...
  
  ) (Eurasian water milfoil, Spiked water milfoil)
• Onopordum acanthium (cotton thistle, heraldic thistle, Scots thistle, Scottish thistle, woolly thistle)
• Paederia foetida
  Paederia foetida
  Paederia foetida is a species of plant, with common names that are variations of Skunkvine; Stinkvine; or Chinese Fever Vine...
  
  (skunk vine)
• Panicum repens (torpedo grass)
• Pastinaca sativa (parsnip)
• Paulownia tomentosa
  Paulownia tomentosa
  Paulownia tomentosa is a deciduous tree in the genus Paulownia, native to central and western China, but invasive in the US...
  
  (princess tree)
• Persicaria perfoliata * (formerly Polygonum perfoliatum; Asiatic tearthumb, Chinese tearthumb, devil shield, devil's tail tearthumb, mile-a-minute weed)
• Persicaria vulgaris * (pink lady's thumb)
• Phragmites australis (common reed)1
• Potamogeton crispus (curly-leaf pondweed)
• Pueraria lobata (kudzu)
• Rosa multiflora (baby rose, multiflora rose, rambler rose)
• Rubus armeniacus
  Rubus armeniacus
  Rubus armeniacus, Armenian Blackberry or Himalayan Blackberry, is a species of Rubus in the blackberry group Rubus subgenus Rubus series Discolores Focke. It is native to Armenia in southwest Asia, and widely naturalised elsewhere...
  
  (Armenian blackberry, Himalayan blackberry)
• Rubus phoenicolasius
  Rubus phoenicolasius
  Rubus phoenicolasius is a species of raspberry native to northern China, Japan, and Korea. The species was introduced to Europe and North America as an ornamental plant and for its potential in breeding hybrid raspberries...
  
  (Japanese wineberry, wine raspberry, wineberry)
• Rumex crispus (curled dock, curly dock, narrow dock, sour dock, yellow dock)
• Salvinia molesta (giant salvinia, kariba weed)
• Schinus terebinthifolius (aroeira, Brazilian pepper, Christmasberry, Florida holly, rose pepper)
• Solanum viarum
  Solanum viarum
  Solanum viarum, the Tropical Soda Apple, is a perennial shrub native to Brazil and Argentina with a prickly stem and prickly leaves. The fruit is golf ball sized with the coloring of a watermelon...
  
  (tropical soda apple)
• Spartina alterniflora
  Spartina alterniflora
  Spartina alterniflora is a perennial deciduous grass which is found in intertidal wetlands, especially estuarine salt marshes. It grows 1-1.5 m tall, and has smooth, hollow stems which bear leaves up to 20-60 cm long and 1.5 cm wide at their base, which are sharply tapered and bend down...
  
  (saltmarsh cordgrass, smooth cordgrass)
• Striga asiatica
  Striga asiatica
  Asiatic witchweed is a hemiparasitic plant in the Scrophulariaceae family. It is native to Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, but has been introduced into other parts of the world including Australia and the United States...
  
  (Asiatic witchweed)
• Tamarix
  Tamarix
  The genus Tamarix is composed of about 50-60 species of flowering plants in the family Tamaricaceae, native to drier areas of Eurasia and Africa...
  
  spp. (saltcedar, tamarisk)
• Trapa natans (water caltrop, water chestnut)
• Triadica sebifera (Sapium sebiferum; Chinese tallow tree, Florida aspen, Gray popcorn tree)

Insects

• Adelges tsugae (hemlock woolly adelgid)
• Aedes albopictus (Asian tiger mosquito)
• Agrilus planipennis (emerald ash borer)
• Anoplophora glabripennis (Asian long-horned beetle)
• Apis mellifera scutellata (Africanized honeybee)
• Bemisia argentifolii (silverleaf whitefly)
• Cactoblastis cactorum
  Cactoblastis cactorum
  Cactoblastis cactorum, commonly known as the Cactus Moth, South American Cactus Moth, or Nopal Moth, is native to Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and southern Brazil. It is one of five species in the genus Cactoblastis that lives in South America...
  
  (cactus moth)
• Coptotermes formosanus (Formosan subterranean termite)
• Diaphorina citri
  Diaphorina citri
  The Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri, is a sap-sucking, hemipteran bug in the family, Psyllidae. It is an important pest of citrus being one of only two known vectors of the serious citrus disease, Huanglongbing or greening disease. It is widely distributed in southern Asia and has spread to...
  
  (Asian citrus psyllid)
• Duponchelia fovealis
  Duponchelia fovealis
  Duponchelia fovealis is a species of moth of the family Crambidae. It is endemic to the area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, and the Canary Islands, but has extended its range to other parts of Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Canada....
  
  (a moth from the Mediterranean region)
• Epiphyas postvittana (light brown apple moth)
• Halyomorpha halys (brown marmorated stink bug )
• Harmonia axyridis (Asian lady beetle)
• Linepithema humile (Argentine ant)
• Lymantria dispar (European gypsy moth)
• Popillia japonica (Japanese beetle)
• Scirtothrips dorsalis
  Scirtothrips dorsalis
  The chilli thripsThis is the more common international spelling of "chilli" outside of the United States. This spelling has been preserved in the common name for the insect by entomologists in the United States in deference to the body of literature already published for this species by...
  
  (chili thrips)
• Solenopsis invicta (red imported fire ant)
• Xyleborus glabratus
  Xyleborus glabratus
  The redbay ambrosia beetle, Xyleborus glabratus Eichhoff, is a type of ambrosia beetle recently invasive to United States. It has been documented as spreading laurel wilt, a fungus that can kill several trees in the Lauraceae family ....
  
  (redbay ambrosia beetle)

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Aquatic arthropods

• Bythotrephes cederstroemi
  Bythotrephes cederstroemi
  Bythotrephes longimanus , or the spiny water flea, is a planktonic crustacean less than long. It is native to fresh waters of Northern Europe and Asia, but has been accidentally introduced and widely distributed in the Great Lakes area of North America since the 1980s...
  
  (Spiny water flea)
• Carcinus maenas
  Carcinus maenas
  Carcinus maenas is a common littoral crab, and an important invasive species, listed among the 100 "world's worst alien invasive species". It is native to the north-east Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea, but has colonised similar habitats in Australia, South Africa, South America and both Atlantic and...
  
  (European green crab)
• Daphnia lumholtzi
  Daphnia lumholtzi
  Daphnia lumholtzi is a small, invasive water flea that originates in the tropical and subtropical lakes of Africa, Asia, and Australia. As an invasive species, Daphnia lumholtzi disrupts aquatic habitats by spreading throughout the warmer waters of lakes and reservoirs.-Description:Daphnia...
  
  
• Eriocheir sinensis (Chinese mitten crab)
• Hemigrapsus sanguineus (Japanese shore crab)

Freshwater snails

• Ampullariidae
  Ampullariidae
  Ampullariidae, common name the apple snails, is a family of large freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks with a gill and an operculum...
  
   (Apple snails)
• Bithynia tentaculata
  Bithynia tentaculata
  Bithynia tentaculata, common names the mud bithynia or common bithynia, or faucet snail is a relatively small species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae....
  
  (Faucet snail)
• Cipangopaludina chinensis (Chinese mystery snail)
• Potamopyrgus antipodarum (New Zealand mud snail)

Freshwater clams

• Corbicula fluminea
  Corbicula fluminea
  Corbicula fluminea is a species of freshwater clam, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Corbiculidae.This species is of originally mainly Asian origin and thus it is often commonly called Asian clam or Asiatic clam. In the aquarium and koi pond trade it is often called Golden Clam or Golden...
  
  (Asian clam)
• Dreissena polymorpha (Zebra mussel)

Land slugs

• Deroceras reticulatum
  Deroceras reticulatum
  Deroceras reticulatum, common names "grey field slug" and "grey garden slug", is a species of small air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Agriolimacidae...
  
  
• Limax maximus
• Lehmannia marginata
  Lehmannia marginata
  Lehmannia marginata is species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Limacidae. Sometimes classified in the genus Limax, the species is distinct in its ecology, and its nearly transparent body. It is a medium-sized species, rarely exceeding 12 cm in...
  
  , before known as Limax marginatus
• Milax gagates
  Milax gagates
  Milax gagates, common name the "greenhouse slug" is a species of air-breathing, keeled, land slug, a shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Milacidae.-Description:...
  
  

Fish

• Alosa pseudoharengus (Alewife)
• Channa argus (Northern snakehead)
• Cyprinus carpio (Common carp)
• Gymnocephalus cernuus (Eurasian ruffe)
• Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (Silver carp)
• Hypophthalmichthys nobilis (Bighead carp)
• Monopterus albus
  Monopterus albus
  Monopterus albus is an important air-breathing commercial species of fish in the Synbranchidae family...
  
  (Asian swamp eel)
• Neogobius melanostomus (Round goby)
• Oreochromis aureus
  Oreochromis aureus
  Oreochromis aureus is a species of fish in the Cichlidae family. Native to Northern and Western Africa, and the Middle East, through introductions it is now also established elsewhere, including parts of the United States, where it has been declared an invasive species and has caused significant...
  
  (Blue tilapia)
• Petromyzon marinus (Sea lamprey)

Reptiles and amphibians

• Boiga irregularis (Brown tree snake)
• Bufo marinus (Cane toad)
• Caiman crocodilus (Spectacled Caiman)
• Iguana iguana (Green iguana)
• Python molurus bivittatus (Burmese python)
• Rana catesbeiana (Bullfrog)
• Varanus niloticus (Nile monitor)
• Osteopilus septentrionalis (Cuban tree frog)

Birds and mammals

• Brotogeris versicolurus (White winged parakeet)
• Columba livia (Rock pigeon)
• Cygnus olor (Mute swan)
• Felis catus (Domestic cat)
• Melopsittacus undulatus (Budgerigar, Common pet parakeet)
• Myocastor coypus (Coypu, nutria)
• Myiopsitta monachus (Monk Parakeet, Quaker Parrot)
• Passer domesticus (House sparrow)
• Rattus norvegicus (Brown rat)
• Rattus rattus (Black rat)
• Streptopelia decaocto (Eurasian Collared Dove)
• Sturnus vulgaris (European starling)
• Sus scrofa (Wild boar)
• Canis lupus familiaris (Domestic dog)

Pathogens

• Avipoxvirus
  Avipoxvirus
  Avipoxvirus is a member of the Poxviridae family. The Poxviridae family is the family of viruses which cause the victim organism to have poxes as a symptom. This pox virus is one that affects birds only. Poxviruses have generally large genomes, and other such examples include smallpox and monkeypox...
  
   (Fowlpox
  Fowlpox
  Fowlpox is a worldwide disease of poultry caused by viruses of the family Poxviridae and the genus Avipoxvirus. The viruses causing fowlpox are distinct from one another but antigenically similar, possible hosts including chickens, turkeys, quail, canaries, pigeons, and many other species of...
  
  )
• Cryphonectria parasitica (Chestnut blight)
• Flavivirus
  Flavivirus
  Flavivirus is a genus of the family Flaviviridae. This genus includes the West Nile virus, dengue virus, tick-borne encephalitis virus, yellow fever virus, and several other viruses which may cause encephalitis....
  
   (West Nile virus
  West Nile virus
  West Nile virus is a virus of the family Flaviviridae. Part of the Japanese encephalitis antigenic complex of viruses, it is found in both tropical and temperate regions. It mainly infects birds, but is known to infect humans, horses, dogs, cats, bats, chipmunks, skunks, squirrels, domestic...
  
  )
• Myxobolus cerebralis
  Myxobolus cerebralis
  Myxobolus cerebralis is a myxosporean parasite of salmonids that causes whirling disease in farmed salmon and trout and also in wild fish populations...
  
  (Whirling disease)
• Ophiostoma ulmi
  Ophiostoma ulmi
  Ophiostoma ulmi is a species of fungus in the Ophiostomataceae family. It is one of the causative agents of Dutch elm disease. It was first described under the name Graphium ulmi, and later transferred to the genus Ophiostoma....
  
  (Dutch elm disease)
• Paramyxovirus
  Paramyxovirus
  Paramyxoviruses are viruses of the Paramyxoviridae family of the Mononegavirales order; they are negative-sense single-stranded RNA viruses responsible for a number of human and animal diseases.-Genera:*Subfamily Paramyxovirinae**Genus Avulavirus Paramyxoviruses (from Greek para-, beyond, -myxo-,...
  
   (Exotic Newcastle disease)
• Phakopsora spp. (Soybean rust)
• Phytophthora ramorum (Sudden oak death)
• Potyvirus
  Potyvirus
  Potyviruses infect plants and belong to the family Potyviridae. The genus is named after the type virus - Potato Virus Y.The Potyvirus, like the Begomoviruses, have ~30% of the currently known plant viruses and have at least 180 definitive and possible members...
  
   (Plum pox
  Plum pox
  Plum pox, also known as sharka, is the most devastating viral disease of stone fruit from the genus Prunus. The disease is caused by the plum pox virus , and the different strains may infect a variety of stone fruit species including peaches, apricots, plums, nectarine, almonds, and sweet and tart...
  
  )

Others

• Didymosphenia geminata
  Didymosphenia geminata
  Didymosphenia geminata, commonly known as didymo or rock snot, is a species of diatom that grows in warm and shallow water. If it overgrows, it can form large mats on the bottom of lakes, rivers and streams. It is not considered a significant human health risk, but it can affect stream habitats and...
  
  (Didymo, rock snot)
• Lumbricidae
  Lumbricidae
  The Lumbricidae is a family of earthworms which includes most of the earthworm species well known to Europeans. About 33 lumbricid species have become naturalized around the world, but the bulk of the species are in Holarctic: from Canada and the United States The Lumbricidae is a family of...
  
   spp. (Earthworms)
• Varroa destructor
  Varroa destructor
  Varroa destructor is an external parasitic mite that attacks honey bees Apis cerana and Apis mellifera. The disease caused by the mites is called varroatosis....
  
  (Varroa mite)

External links

• National Invasive Species Information Center, National Invasive Species Information Center, United States National Agricultural Library
  United States National Agricultural Library
  The United States National Agricultural Library is one of the world's largest agricultural research libraries, and serves as a National Library of the United States and as the library of the United States Department of Agriculture...
  
  . Lists general information and resources for invasive species.