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Weed Information |
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| Biodiversity | Weed control | Physical control | Chemical control | Biological control | How long to control? | Successful biocontrol | 'Useful' weeds | Finding biocontrol agents | Biocontrol agents in NZ | After controls |
Keeping the useful features of weeds
Where some weeds are useful, biocontrol agents can be used that control the weeds but keep the useful features of the plant.
For example, seed-eating agents are often used in biological control programmes where some groups of people make their living from weeds (e.g., forestry groups use some weeds such as Acacia species for timber). The seed-eating agents eat the seeds ONLY and so stop the weed from reproducing and spreading. This way, people can plant the trees where they want without the weed spreading.
Biodiversity
Weed
control Physical
control Chemical
control Biological
control How
long to control? Successful biocontrol 'Useful'
weeds Finding
biocontrol agents Biocontrol
agents in NZ After
control 