May 6, 2022
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Despite ongoing COVID-19 travel restrictions to the Kingdom of Tonga, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research (MWLR) was able this week to ship off a courier package containing African tulip tree (Spathodea campanulata) cuttings infested with gall mites (Colomerus spathodeae) to collaborators in Tonga. The shipment will ramp up weed-busting work in Tonga by introducing the gall mites to help reduce the spread and density of the invasive African tulip tree.
