By Simon J. Levien The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a suggestion to help curb the growing population of an invasive species that bears a resemblance to a very large rat: Eat them.

Please? I’m invasive and delicious.” FWS made a follow-up post on Feb. 27, detailing how to identify nutria by their arched backs, white whiskers, and rat-like tails. The service also reiterated the ...

Nutria can specifically be found along the Gulf Coast, in the Pacific Northwest and in the Southeastern United States. Its exact population, though, is unknown. The rat-like behemoth is larger ...

Nutria, an invasive species, has caused erosion and loss of habitat in California and approximately 19 other states Getty A new source of sustenance has been added to the California diet.

The perfect project to combat that image is taking on the nutria, an invasive swamp rat that threatens to damage levees and eat through Central Valley wetlands. Aug. 7, 2019 Originally bred for a ...

Not a good idea. Now, nutria have become a big problem in Texas. One is that nutria have no natural predators, and as such their population quickly exploded. The other major problem with nutria is ...

Since 2023 more nutria have been taken from Fresno County than any county in California, according to CDFW data. In the ...

Ok, so how can we help? Nutria gumbo. Their meat is lean, mild, and tastes like rabbit.” “Because this sharp-toothed facultative air breather can live outside a body of water for several days ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is not known for its culinary recommendations, but a recent Facebook post has an eye-catching, but perhaps unappetizing photo of a furry nutria along with the ...

Cooking up the swamp rats could be a solution to the growing problem. The lean and mild meat of nutria has been compared to rabbit or the dark meat of a turkey. Wildlife officials said the ...

Launched during National Invasive Species Awareness Week, the initiative promotes the slogan "Save a Swamp, Sauté a Nutria" to combat these destructive rodents that have plagued U.S. wetlands for ...