Episode 238
Biocontrol – Beating Back Invasive Plants
Growing Greener · Tom Christopher
December 27, 202329m 1s
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Show Notes
Invasive plants flourish in part because in their transition to North America they leave behind the co-evolved pests that help keep them in check in their homelands. Dr. Lisa Tewksbury, Director of the University of Rhode Island Biocontrol Laboratory, describes the painstaking process of introducing to our landscape organisms that can control the invasive plants without harming our native species.