[APWG] NEWS: Weevils dispatched to fight invasive lake plant

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Thu Aug 18 08:30:18 CDT 2011


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7701853.html

Weevils dispatched to fight invasive lake plant
By MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press  2011 The Associated Press
Aug. 17, 2011, 7:41PM

WOODVILLE, Texas -- Thousands of tiny beetle-like insects were stirred 
into an East Texas lake on Wednesday, and state officials hope the bugs 
are hungry: they're being used to fight a quick-growing exotic plant 
carpeting patches of water and threatening to erase all life underneath.

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