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Help advocate for research on host specific, effective, biological controls of non-native plants. One of the most productive activities to save our natural areas is to facilitate research that will make host specific biological controls available. Insects that consume the non-native invasive plant species can substitute for the controls where the species originated.
Of the 15 top non-native invasive plant species in the mid-Atlantic region four (Purple Loosestrife, Mile-a-minute, Japanese Knotweed, and Garlic Mustard) now have one or two non-native insects or fungi that feed on them being released that are host specific and effective. Since the new rules of proving host specificity went into effect about 20 years ago, the problem of bio-controls harming non-target organisms has gone down to 3% of its earlier rate. With adequate research we can find bio-controls for about 30 percent of our non-native invasive plant species and reduce our work for traditional removal of non-native species by labor-intensive cut, pull and spray.
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