Alien Species photo bank

This is the NOBANIS photo bank with free photos of alien species and photos  related to alien species.

You can use the photos for all non-commercial purposes, if you also list the photographer and NOBANIS,
eg. "Photo from www.nobanis.org, photographer xxx"

We would like more photos

If you have photos that we can use (with no restrictions), please send to the NOBANIS secretariat: nobanis@ni.is
We need the species name, and if available photographer name and place taken.

Alien flora

• Ajuga reptans . bugle, blue bugle, bugleherb, bugleweed, carpetweed
• Ambrosia artemisifolia - Common ragweed
• Artemisia absinthium - absinthium, absinthe wormwood, common wormwood, green ginger      
• Buddleja davidii - Summer lilac, Butterfly-bush
• Bunias orientalis - Turkish warty-cabbage
• Campylopus introflexus - Heath star-moss
• Carpobrotus edulis - Ice plant, Sour fig, Hottentot fig
• Cylindropuntia rosea - Hudson pear
• Ecballium elaterium - Squirting cucumber, Exploding cucumber
• Elodea canadensis - Canadian waterweed
• Elodea nuttallii - Western waterweed
• Fallopia japonica - Japanese knotweed
• Fallopia sachalinensis - Giant knotweed
• Heracleum mantegazzianum - Giant hogweed, Cartwheel-flower, Wild parsnip
• Impatiens capensis - Orange Jewelweed
• Impatiens grandulifera - Himalayan Balsam
• Lantana camara -
• Lupinus nootkatensis - Nootka lupin
• Lupinus polyphyllus - Large-leaved lupin, Big-leaved lupin, Garden lupin
• Narcissus poeticus - Poet's Daffodil
• Nymphoides peltata - Yellow floating heart
• Pastinaca sativa - Wild parsnip                                                                              
• Periploca graeca -  silk vine                                                                                  
• Petasites hybridus - Butterbur
• Ricinus communis - Caster bean, Dwarf red spire
• Rosa rugosa - Japanese rose                                                                              
• Sarracenia purpurea -
• Solidago canadensis - Canada goldenrod
• Verbesina encelioide - Golden crownbeard, Cowpen daisy
• Vinca minor - Lesser periwinkle, Dwarf periwinkle, Myrtle

Alien fauna

• Arion lusitanicus - Portuguese slug
• Astacus leptodactylus - Turkish crayfish, narrow-clawed crayfish
• Branta canadensis - Canada goose
• Camerarie ohridella - Horse-chestnut leaf miner
• Chamaeleo chameleon - Mediterranean Chameleon
• Dama dama - Fallow deer
• Lepus europaeus - European hare
• Myocastor coypus - Coypu                                                                                  
• Neovison vison - American Mink
• Nyctereutes procyonoides - Raccoon dog
• Pacifastacus leniusculus - Signal crayfish
• Procyon lotor - Raccoon
• Sciurus carolinensis - Gray squirrel
• Trachemys scripta - Pond slider

Marine species

• Crassostrea gigas - Pacific oyster, Japanese oyster
• Eriocheir sinensis - Chinese mitten crab
• Gracilaria vermiculophylla
• Heterosiphonia japonica
• Sargassum muticum

Pathways

• Aquaculture
• Container ship
• Car transport
• Harbor - small boats
• Tourism
• Mink farm
• Railway tracks - trains
• Crop field

Management

• Management - Heracleum mantegazzianum                                                  
• Management - Pacifastacus leniusculus
• Management - Rosa rugosa
• Management - Nyctereutes procyonoides

Other sources of free photos

The Nordic Council of Mininsters has an online photobank, where most photos are free to use if you write the source (eg. photographer name - norden.org). See under the individual photos for information on copyrights.

The photos are not directly related to IAS, but there are many of ships, trafic (transport), nordic landscapes, nature and animals etc.

Nordic Council of Ministers photos