NQ Dry Tropics
provided support to the Department of Primary Industries and
Fisheries in undertaking a Blueprint for the Bush project working
on the development of biological control (biocontrol) insects to
control bellyache bush, cat's claw creeper and prickly
acacia. Biological control is a management option
that can deliver reductions in the long-term impacts of widespread
weeds.
This project
supported research that will facilitate the release of new
biocontrol agents with the introduction, testing and mass rearing
of agents for bellyache bush and cat’s claw creeper. The
project also resulted in the establishment of international
partnerships for exploration for potential biocontrol agents, in
particular in India for prickly acacia agents and in Central and
South America for bellyache bush agents.
