Government unleashes tiny insects to combat full-blown public crisis: 'The solution is laws addressing this source'

Government unleashes tiny insects to combat full-blown public crisis: 'The solution is laws addressing this source'

The South African government has a new weapon in its fight against invasive water plants: a tiny aquatic weevil from Florida, Devdiscourse reported. The salvinia weevil is named for its favorite food. It eats massive quantities of common salvinia, a plant that is creeping across South Africa. This water weed is an invasive species — a species that has traveled beyond its native environment to a new location where it is multiplying at a destructi…