Eradication Strawberry Guava (leaf gall)

[steviethewonder]

Biocontrol should NEVER be used again unless, by some happy coincidence, a species that's native to the area (most likely at the brink of, if not extinct in the wild already due to the takeover of native habitat by non-native invasives like strawberry guava), turns out to provide it. How about creating more green industry jobs manually removing and replacing them with natives? This is the most responsible path, in my opinion. How many could have been removed already had money spent on studies and biocontrol research been spent on good ol' fashioned labor?

Steve Newman