Marcus Lashley is an associate professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Florida. They go by many names – pigs, hogs, swine, razorbacks – but whatever you call them, wild pigs (Sus scrofa) ...
The Michell family worked hard for two months last fall to plant fields of oats on their 150-acre farm in northeast Georgia. Then, over the winter, a big family of wild hogs — also known as a sounder ...
Feral pigs have earned a reputation as one of the nation’s most destructive invasive species. The pigs, which can weigh hundreds of pounds, trample fields and eat crops, doing billions of dollars in ...
Texas Wild Hog Control’s Edward Dickey with a captured wild hog. Feral hogs are like fire ants: you are never going to get rid of them. That's the message from one local county official who advises ...
Feral pigs have roamed the woods of the U.S. for centuries and are a major feature in the U.S. countryside, with one Twitter user famously going viral in 2020 complaining about the "30-50 feral hogs" ...
Think of the worst invasive species you know. Kudzu: smothering trees and houses, growing a foot a day. Burmese pythons: stripping the Everglades of small animals. Asian carp: hoovering streams clean ...
Marcus Lashley receives funding from USDA Wildlife Services. The wild pigs in Canada are unique because they were originally crossbred by humans to be larger and more cold-hardy than their feral ...
In this December 19, 2011 file photograph, wild hogs are seen in bottom-land just off Graveyard Road in the Vicksburg National Military Park causing noticeable damage to the ground around several of ...
(NEXSTAR) — With the start of deer hunting season, hunters may be encountering feral hogs more often out in the brush. And based on recent population data, it’s likely there are significantly more ...