Scientists bank on weevil beetle to save Southern Africa's freshwater from alien plant invasion

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(30 Mar 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Hartbeespoort, South Africa - 17 March 2025 1. Various of South Africa's Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation tossing weevil insects into water covered with the invasive Salvinia plant 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Julie Coetzee, Scientist for Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity: ++PART OVERLAID BY SHOT 3++ “These insects were imported from Louisiana, they're not indigenous to Louisiana, but in - this is Louisiana in the United States -