Panvel Municipal Corporation Releases 50,000 Weevils Into Wadale Lake To Control Invasive Salvinia Weed
Panvel, September 15, 2026: The Panvel Municipal Corporation (PMC), in collaboration with the ICAR-Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur, has released another 50,000 Cyrtobagous salviniae weevils into the historic Wadale Lake as part of an ongoing biological control programme to tackle the invasive aquatic weed Salvinia molesta. The second phase of the initiative was launched recently following…
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