Wisconsin to send wasp hit squad after emerald ash borers
Posted on May 6, 2011
Authorities in Wisconsin will release an invasive species this month to kill another invasive species.
More than 1,000 tiny stingless wasps the size of a grain of rice will be let go at Riveredge Nature Center in the Town of Saukville later in May in the hope that they destroy another insect - the highly destructive emerald ash borer.
This is the first time Wisconsin has experimented with the wasps to kill emerald ash borers, and it will become the 10th state to experiment with the insect.
Officials in Wisconsin said that the wasps present no threat to the public.
via jsonline.com
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