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Air Potato
How do you get rid of weeds? You put a tiny creature that is part of the beetle family to work. In Florida, a tenacious vine called the “air potato” poses difficult challenges to wildlife managers, but they're fighting back by letting small critters do what they do best. In this next segment we go inside the ground war on the air potato.
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