Eli5: why are invasive species so good at living in foreign places?

Question

I feel like invasive species would have a harder time living in a new area because they don’t know how to hunt/fight in the new area. I always hear how sensitive animals can be to changes in their environment too, so wouldn’t moving animals to a whole new environment mess them up? Why is this not the case?

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Answer 1

They’re invasive. By definition the local environment they’re now in are ill equipped to deal with the never before seen species. They likely have something that local species can’t fight back against