Students conduct a "blitz" by quickly rotating through hands-on specimen stations and answering the BioBlitz questions. Then, students are assigned one invader to research more thoroughly and present to the class.
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- Silent Invaders Asian Carp, 2013
- Huge Hand-Caught Bullfrog
- Bullfrog hunts . . . anything
- Red swamp crawfish audio slideshow
- Red Swamp Crayfish
- Know Your Invasives: Rusty Crayfish
- Silent Invaders
- Quagga Mussel in Lake Powell, ABC 4 News
- Quagga Mussels Feeding, sped up 10x
- Aquatic Invaders
- Japanese Knotweed Damage—Eradicate Japanese Knotweed
- Japanese Knotweed
- Elodias en el lago (Elodea in the lake)
- Yellow Flag Iris
- Yellow Iris (Iris pseudacorus)
- Invaders in Our Waters: Purple Loosestrife
- Purple Loosestrife—A Very Wicked Plant
- Didymo (Montana Fish, Wildlife, & Parks)
- Arundo donax Removal
- Chinese Mitten Crab Feeding
- Chinese Mitten Crab (Eriocheir sinensis)
- Chinese Mitten Crab with ginger, Chef Gordon Ramsay
- Tunicate
- Invasive Species Google Earth Tour
- Leatherjacket sheltered by Undaria crop
- Invading Seaweed
- Reflections on the Water: Identifying Spartina Grass with Rachel Benbrook