Photos (Insects, Crustaceans, Mollusks, and Fish)

Gypsy Moth caterpillar
Gypsy Moth caterpillar. Ferenc Lakatos, University of West-Hungary, Bugwood.org

The Bugwood.Org images site, started in 1994 by the University of Georgia’s Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health, has become a tremendous resource for those working in the fields of Invasive Species Management, Integrated Pest Management, and related education and outreach efforts. Currently the site hosts over 144,716 natural resource images in an easy to search and use format. We support their efforts and encourage others with images of Maine invasives to join the effort and share your images, which will be licensed for personal and educational use. Visit their website to sign up or learn more details.

The Invasive.Org site has over 1700 invasive species images in their collection and are organized in the following categories below. Listed below are links to selected species as included in our Identification Resources pages. These include: insects, crustaceans, mollusks, and fish images.

For additional images, visit Terrestrial/Aquatic Plants and Diseases.

Invasive Insects

Common Name Species Name
European Fire Ant Myrmica rubra
Spotted Wing Drosophilia Drosophilia suzukii
Forest Pests including Emerald Ash Borer, Asian Longhorn Beetle, Hemlock Wooly Adelgid, Elongate Hemlock Scale, Brown Spruce Longhorn Beetle, Winter Moth, European Wood Wasp, and Gypsy Moth Agrilus planipennis, Anoplophora glabripennis, Adelges tsugae, Fiorinia externa, Tetropium fuscum, Operophtera brumata, Sirex noctilio, and Lymantria dispar

Invasive Crustaceans

Common Name Species Name
Asian Shore Crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus
Green Crab Carcinus maenas
Hairy-clawed Shore Crab Hemigrapsus penicillatus
Chinese Mitten Crab Eriocheir sinensis

Invasive Mollusks

Common Name Species Name
Common Periwinkle Littorina littorea
Rapa Whelk Rapana venosa

Invasive Fish

Common Name Species Name
Northern Pike Esox lucius

When images are not currently available in Bugwood, links to the species record from the Encyclopedia of Life project are substituted.