About Us

The Invasive Species Corporation was founded by experienced and successful entrepreneurs, Pam Marrone and Jim Boyd, with a mission to develop environmentally responsible solutions to control the spread and impact of invasive species in water, forestry and agriculture. Invasive species have caused more than $1 trillion in economic damage, are the second largest cause of biodiversity decline behind land use changes and are getting worse with climate change. 400 of the 958 threatened or endangered species are at risk due to competition with or predation by invasive species.

Synthetic chemical pesticides used to control pests are often acutely toxic. Some are suspected carcinogens and their use have other harmful effects on the environment, humans, animals and beneficial insects such as pollinators. Many of these chemical pesticides have not actually proven effective against the invasive species we are targeting or are too harmful to be applied to these sensitive environments.  Instead, we discover, develop and deploy biological solutions from microorganisms and other natural sources such as plant extracts.