Beetle Warfare
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Description: Article from the High Country News discussing the use of the beetle, Diorhabda elongata, to control tamarisk, an invasive riverside shrub.
Beetle Warfare — High Country News What happens when an exotic bug is brought in to fight an exotic weed? Your donation supports independent non-profit journalism from High Country News. When Dan Bean and Tom Dudley were high school classmates in Southern California, their biology teacher offered extra credit for eating oddities of scientific interest. The duo dove into the challenge - Bean, a quiet man with a slow grin, allows that sea-urchin gonads were much tastier than he expected - and their combined score shamed all competitors. Which may partly explain why, on a clear fall day more than three decades later, Bean and Dudley are driving a rocky red dirt road on the Utah-Colorado border, on their way to watch a beetle kill some weeds.
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| Page title: | Beetle Warfare — High Country News |
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| Description: | Scientists unleash a new weapon in the fight against invasive tamarisk – a tiny exotic beetle from Kazakhstan. |
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