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Teaching birds to eat Japanese beetles?
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01-08-2012, 10:47 AM
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Does this seem at all likely?
Yes. The Maori of New Zealand used to have a system for growing sweet potato (kumara) where they kept trained gulls which picked the bugs off the plants.
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