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biological control!!?? - another garden bug on the way!
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Posted by gardenlen qld aust (My Page) on Thu, Oct 27, 05 at 15:18
| we have the cane toad, the lantana mealy bug and the list goes on of failed biological controls bought in by the scientists. this one to help control the cats claw vine and already they are saying it won't do the complete job and that they will need to introduce 2 bugs to get control or maybe they mean 3 or 4 or 5 or how many realy??? and what controls the bug when it breaks out??
anyway it's called some sort of tortoise beetle.
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RE: biological control!!?? - another garden bug on the
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| I was just thinking about that the other day, cane toads and such. Do you have Bitou Bush up north? Along the coast down this way they introduced it to stabilise the sand dunes. Worked rather too well. So now they've found a bug to eat the Bitou Bush. And what will the bug eat when it's finished with the Bitou Bush I wonder. |
RE: biological control!!?? - another garden bug on the
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| g'day mac, exactly hey? don't know the plant you speak about but if we didn't mess with the nature of things and develop in the wrong areas then we woudn't need to introduce exotic plants to cover up for human intervention. then we wouldn't need and exotic critter to clean up the first mistake and create yet another mistake. they also intorduce soemthing like a tumble weed down in the murry/murrumbidgee irrigation system to control rising salt last i heard that became yet another exotic pest. len |
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