Butterflies instead of herbicides to kill cocaine crops?

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With Colombia's president Juan Manuel Santos banning use of controversial herbicides to eradicate coca crops, the president of the Quindio Botanical Garden proposed that an army of Cocaine Tussock Moths (Eloria noyesi) could be enlisted to destroy the coca by eating it.

"Cocaine-eating butterflies proposed to replace herbicides in Colombia" (AP)


More in this 2005 article.