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Article: 'BIOCONTROL' SOLDIERS TO THE RESCUE BEETLES TO BE RELEASED ALONG RIVERS TO ATTACK INVASIVE TAMARISK.(News)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- July 29, 2005
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Byline: Ellen Miller, Special to the News
GRAND JUNCTION -- Researchers are set to release an army of small Chinese beetles along river bottoms in Mesa, Yuma and Adams counties next week to attack the water-sucking tamarisk, an invasive import from Eurasia once promoted by the federal government but now despised.
The tiny soldiers are known as Diorhabda elongata deserticola Chen, or the tamarisk leaf beetle for short, and their release has been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, officials say.
"The beetle offers a great opportunity to thwart tamarisk, also known as salt cedar, the thirsty ...