The large rodents can consume a quarter of their body weight in vegetation every day, and they can destroy an area up to ten times that size. “As an exotic invasive species in our North America ...

The invasive species, nutria, is a large, semiaquatic rodent increasingly found in marshes in the United States. As a part of its National Invasive Species Awareness Week, which ended on Friday ...

local farmers See the Mississippi barbecue restaurant Southern Living named one of best in US Nutria are large rodents from South America that eat and burrow into wetlands along the Gulf Coast ...

Nutria are large rodents from South America that eat and burrow into wetlands along the Gulf Coast, Atlantic Coast and in the Pacific Northwest. They were brought to the U.S. for fur trade originally.

“These oversized, wetland-loving rodents were brought to the U.S. for the fur trade and now they’re devouring marshlands. Ok, so how can we help? Nutria gumbo. Their meat is lean ...