Good Bugs Gone Bad. Doug Stewart.
by Stewart, Doug; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 39Science. Publisher: National Wildlife, 2005ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Argentine ant | Asian longhorned beetle | Beetles | Fire ants | Gypsy moth | Insects | Insects as biological pest control agents | Invasive plants | Ladybugs | Termites | Wasps | WhitefliesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Just as an exotic plant can turn invasive when freed from the enemies that kept it in check back home, so too can an exotic biocontrol insect run amuck itself in the absence of the predators and competitors it evolved with." (NATIONAL WILDLIFE) This article examines how species introduced into the United States to control another species can, themselves, run out of control.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Good Bugs Gone Bad, Aug./Sept. 2005; pp. 24-32.
"Just as an exotic plant can turn invasive when freed from the enemies that kept it in check back home, so too can an exotic biocontrol insect run amuck itself in the absence of the predators and competitors it evolved with." (NATIONAL WILDLIFE) This article examines how species introduced into the United States to control another species can, themselves, run out of control.
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