A tiny black-and-yellow beetle is doing a job most machines can't do. It devours an invasive weed so aggressively that entire mats turn brown and die within months. This insect, the alligatorweed flea beetle, was the first bug ever studied specifically to control an aquatic weed, according to a profile published by the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS). It’s what Florida has relied on since 1965.
The weed that would not stop spreading
