Waterweed-eating weevils to be set loose in mid-2018


KOTA KINABALU: The plan to unleash weevils to eat up an aquatic plant choking numerous lakes and ponds around Sabah is on track, according to state authorities.

State Agriculture Department director Datuk Idrus Shafie said the weevils, a type of beetle, are being bred for release by mid-2018.

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