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  2. Centaurea solstitialis - Wikipedia

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    Centaurea solstitialis, the yellow star-thistle, is a species of thorny plant in the genus Centaurea, which is part of the family Asteraceae. A winter annual , it is native to the Mediterranean Basin region and invasive in many other places.

  3. Eustenopus villosus - Wikipedia

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    Eustenopus villosus is a species of true weevil known as the yellow starthistle hairy weevil. It is used as an agent of biological pest control against the noxious weed yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis). The adult weevil is hairy and brown with white stripes. It is 4 to 6 millimeters long, not including its long snout.

  4. Bangasternus orientalis - Wikipedia

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    Bangasternus orientalis is a species of true weevil known as the yellow starthistle bud weevil. It is used as an agent of biological pest control against the noxious weed yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis). The adult weevil is brown with a thin coat of light mottled hairs. It is about 6 millimeters long.

  5. Chico planned a burn that could have curbed the Park Fire ...

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    Just across the road from where California’s fifth largest fire in recorded history ignited last week, sat a 50 acre patch of extremely dry invasive yellow-star thistle that local authorities ...

  6. US approves releasing non-native insect to control thistle

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    The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday it will permit use of the weevil native to Europe and western Asia to control yellow starthistle, which is from the same areas.

  7. List of invasive plant species in Utah - Wikipedia

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    musk thistle Centaurea solstitialis: yellow star-thistle Cuscuta californica: chaparral dodder Eragrostis cilianensis: stinkgrass Kali tragus: prickly Russian thistle Puccinellia distans: weeping alkaligrass Rubus armeniacus: Himalayan blackberry Salix × fragilis: crack willow Solanum elaeagnifolium: silverleaf nightshade Tamarix chinensis ...

  8. List of invasive species in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Malta star-thistle Asteraceae (aster family) Centaurea solstitialis: yellow star-thistle Asteraceae (aster family) Centaurea stoebe ssp. micranthos: spotted knapweed Asteraceae (aster family) Cinnamomum camphora: camphor tree Lauraceae (laurel family) Cirsium arvense: Canada thistle Asteraceae (aster family) Cirsium vulgare: bull thistle

  9. Larinus curtus - Wikipedia

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    Larinus curtus is a species of true weevil known as the yellow starthistle flower weevil. It is native to Southern Italy, Southern Europe, the Middle East and the Caucasus . [ 1 ] It is used as an agent of biological pest control against the noxious weed yellow starthistle ( Centaurea solstitialis ) in the United States.