The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has advice for dealing with certain types of invasive species -- eat them. Here's what Nutria, iguana and Northern Snakehead tastes like.

US wildlife officials have urged citizens to consider adding nutria to their diets in an attempt to control the population of the "invasive" species. Nutria are a large semi-aquatic rodent native to South America.

Image via Shutterstock As we've previously covered, the US Fish and Wildlife Services would really like for you to turn your aim and dinner forks to an invasive beaver-like rodent called a nutria. They're trying to get people amped up about eating the "delicious" but "invasive" species.

It resembles a small beaver or very large rat, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service would like to see more of them go into gumbo. Nutrias, semi-aquatic rodents native to South America, are an invasive species found in around 18 states,