Keeping our agents in control.

Ecos | July 1, 1999 | Copyright

In a glasshouse at Victoria's Keith Turnbull Research Institute (KTRI), a force of cochineal insects is being marshalled for a renewed assault on the prickly pear.

It's a battle of old adversaries. Cochineal insects were one of 52 insect species brought to Australia early this century as potential prickly pear combatants. Together with the moth Cactoblasis cactorum, they had a major impact on the prickly pear in eastern Australia, but few cochineal insects were released in Victoria and they have been slow to disperse to all prickly pear infestations in the state.

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