Our weekly roundups offer the latest invasive species from around the internet for you to sink your teeth into.   

Here’s a blog post we missed a few weeks ago on the etymology of the term invasivore

Next, check out this concise editorial on Technorati

We wish we could have been here as Cooking Demo At James Beard House Showcases Safe Preparation Of Lionfish.  Anyone know how we can get our hands on some lionfish?

The brown marmorated stink bug has now appeared in Wisconsin.  Does anyone know if these things are edible?

Is eating invasive species is this summer’s coolest new trend?

And speaking of summer, here’s one more reminder to be sure to inspect and wash your boats and trailers!

Finally, in case you missed it last week, be sure to check out Answer for Invasive Species: Put It on a Plate and Eat It, which has generated quite the buzz about eating invasive species.

Picks of the Week: invasivore.org in the news

Wynne Parry at Livescience.com wrote up a piece about invasivore.org, On the Menu: Taking a Bite Out of Invasive Species, which got syndicated a little at MSNBC, Yahoo and the Mother Nature Network.  And prompted some mentions around the blogosphere from the National Geographic Society, our friends at MichianaSTEM and the cool Tippecanoe Urban Farmers.

Sunday, March 27

The same week that had people talking about Embracing Aliens in the Galápagos, they go and drop Drop Poison on the Galapagos Islands to kill the rats.

Monday, March 28

Treehugger turn us on to How invasive species work – their spread can be spectacular, which is a good introduction to a critical aspect of species invasions.

Tuesday, March 29

Invasivore in the City, at The House Rules lead me to another an piece by the same, Stink Bug Eradication Techniques from way back in 2007 encouraging people to eat them.  It was prophetic then that I found this on Tuesday, considering the reports from Thursday.

Wednesday, March 30

Livescience.com follows up their invasivore.org piece with New Weapons Against Invasive Carp: Knife and Fork.

Thursday, March 31

Notre Dame Professor Leads Effort to Keep Asian Carp Out of Great Lakes

Stink bug epidemic spreads as 33 U.S. states now report infiltrations of the smelly pest

Some intital searching reports the brown marmorated stink bug Halyomorpha halys is edible…still looking into it, stay tuned.