Article: Don't slug that bug! (The Green Thumb Gazette).(Brief Article)

Bugged by bugs in the garden? Sometimes they're a big help.

Never happen? Just ask Elissa Martinsen and Julia Szilagyi, two girls who know a lot about what little bugs can do to a great big nuisance plant.

Julia and Elissa were featured on a segment of a new PBS television show, "DragonflyTV," that focuses on kids doing science projects. They were testing how well Oxyops vitiosa, a weevil, could help control a nasty imported tree called the melaleuca that was infesting the Everglades.

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