PPRI News No. 97 – July – September 2013

* Biological control of balloon vine (Cardiospermum grandiflorum) in South Africa: targeting the seed output with the weevil (Cissoanthonomus tuberculipennis) * South Africa the first in Africa to release a stem boring weevil for the biological control of famine weed * First releases of Mexican beetle (Zygogramma bicolorata) against famine weed (Parthenium hysterophorus) in South Africa