invasivore

plural invasivores

1. A person who makes a point of eating invasive species in an effort to reduce their ecological impact.

   Grab your shotgun and your frying pan, and let Eating Aliens be your guide to becoming the ultimate invasivore!

   2012, Matthew Weingarten, quoted on praise page of Jackson Landers, Eating Aliens: One Man's Adventures Hunting Invasive Animal Species, Storey Publishing (2012), unnumbered page

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   “Invasivore” diets were increasingly encouraged as a hopeful means of controlling unwanted species like lionfish, Asian carp, and green mitten crabs.

   2012, Larry Perez, Snake in the Grass: An Everglades Invasion, Pineapple Press, →ISBN, page 97

   My first training in the way of the invasivore came a few months before I met Bun, when I sat in a Boston restaurant watching New Hampshire chef Evan Mallett plate buttermilk-poached-dogfish salads.

   2014 March 24, Rowan Jacobsen, “The Invasivore's Dilemma”, in Outside