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Committee backs funding to scale biocontrol response for Queensland Longhorn Beetle
Summary
The finance committee advanced HB2139 HD1 to expand research and biocontrol capacity for the Queensland Longhorn Beetle; farmers, university researchers and community groups urged early, sustained funding to prevent island-to-island spread.
The House Committee on Finance voted Feb. 25 to advance HB2139, HD1, a measure designed to expand the state's capacity to research and scale nematode biocontrol and other treatments to contain the Queensland Longhorn Beetle (QLB).
Stephanie Easley of the Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species described the beetle as having more than 20 known host species, including agriculturally and culturally important trees, and urged proactive treatment…
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