Sentences with phrase «tamarisk beetles»

Tamarisk and the tamarisk beetle are now permanent features of our western waterways, says Ben Bloodworth, who coordinates beetle - monitoring programs across the western U.S. and Mexico for the nonprofit Tamarisk Coalition.

By 2001, they'd launched the tamarisk beetle program, releasing the insects at 10 different sites with the caveat that no releases would be permitted within 200 miles of a known flycatcher nest.

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Ecologists worried the beetles would destroy the tamarisks that this unique bird had come to rely on for nesting.

These Old World beetles were imported and released in the early 2000s as a biological control for tamarisk, a once - beloved Eurasian tree that now monopolizes vast stretches of western waterways.

Diorhabda carinulata, the northern tamarisk leaf beetle, feeds on the leaves of Tamarix.