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Niue will become the first country in the Pacific to welcome a leaf-feeding beetle that researchers hope will control the spread of the invasive air potato vines or known locally as hoi.
A team from the Manaaki Whenua– Landcare Research in New Zealand are on the island this week to deliver the first Pacific air potato leaf beetle eggs with the first release held on Monday led by Niue’s Minister of Natural Resources – Hon. Mona Ainuu and New Zealand High Commissioner-HE. Mark Gibb.
