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Prospects for Biological Control of Eurasian Watermilfoil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Neal R. Spencer  and
M. Lekić
Neal R. Spencer
Affiliation:
U.S. Dep. of Agr.-ARS Southern Region, Biol. Control Lab., Gainesville, FL 32602
M. Lekić
Affiliation:
Plant Protection Inst., Belgrade, Yugoslavia
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Abstract

Eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum L.) has invaded over 81,000 hectares in the Chesapeake Bay, 2,023 hectares in TVA reservoirs, and upwards of 32,000 hectares in Currituck Sound, North Carolina. Now it is causing concern in Florida because of its invasion of the Crystal-Homosassa River basin. In Yugoslavia and Pakistan, entomologists working on PL-480 grants found some 25 insect species feeding on eurasian watermilfoil. These species are potentially useful for the biological control of the weed in the United States.

Type
Research Article
Information
Weed Science , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , July 1974 , pp. 401 - 404
Copyright
Copyright © 1974 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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