Outside of its native South America, salvinia is one of the world's worst aquatic weeds. Conventional control is prohibitively expensive, but now biological control using a beetle has become a reality.
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Thomas, P., Room, P. Taxonomy and control of Salvinia molesta. Nature 320, 581–584 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/320581a0
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