[APWG] NEWS: Fighting one exotic species with another

[Olivia Kwong]

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Fighting one exotic species with another
Purple loosestrife is target of beetles

By John Dyer
The Boston Globe Correspondent / April 27, 2008

Pretty purple plague, meet the beetles.
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A number of residents in this region are preparing to raise thousands of 
imported beetles in a campaign to rid local wetlands of purple 
loosestrife, a fast-growing and hardy invasive plant that specialists say 
crowds out New England natives, like cattails, and can clog small ponds to 
the point of ruining them for skating in the winter.

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