South Africa is facing an escalating ecological crisis – a tiny invasive beetle from Vietnam is killing off trees in urban and natural forests. More than 7,000 trees have been affected by the ...

Scientists hope hungry black weevils imported from Louisiana can help tackle South Africa's invasive water plant problem.

The weevils aren't the first insects to be introduced to curb an invasive threat in South Africa. The country brought in a bug in the 1930s to control the spread of a hardy cactus native to Mexico ...

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Dozens of tiny black weevils cling onto a fern plant as it is tossed onto a leafy green mat coating the surface of South Africa's Crocodile River. Those weevils aren't tossed into the river by ...

The weevils aren’t the first insects to be introduced to curb an invasive threat in South Africa. The country brought in a bug in the 1930s to control the spread of a hardy cactus native to ...

HARTBEESPOORT, South Africa (AP) — Dozens of tiny black weevils ... which is made up of an unwanted, invasive South American aquatic plant called Salvinia minima.