Scientists hope hungry black weevils imported from Louisiana can help tackle South Africa's invasive water plant problem.
Scientists in South Africa are using weevils to combat the invasive Salvinia plant threatening freshwater ecosystems ...
The weevils aren't the first insects to be introduced to curb an invasive threat in South Africa. The country brought in a bug in the 1930s to control the spread of a hardy cactus native to Mexico ...
South Africa is unleashing weevil beetles in a bid to fight off the sprouting growth of salvinia minima, an alien species of ...
Dozens of tiny black weevils cling onto a fern plant as it is tossed onto a leafy green mat coating the surface of South Africa's Crocodile River. Those weevils aren't tossed into the river by ...
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HARTBEESPOORT, South Africa — Dozens of tiny black weevils cling onto a fern plant as it is tossed onto a leafy green mat coating the surface of South Africa's Crocodile River. Those weevils ...