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A gall-forming biological control agent suppresses vegetative growth of an invasive tree

ABSTRACT Attack by the gall-forming biological control agent Lophodiplosis trifida Gagné (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), reduced Melaleuca quinquenervia sapling height by 10.1%, leaf biomass by 42%, woody biomass by 42.7%, and root biomass by 30.3%. This provided the first quantitative evidence of the potential of L. trifida to suppress pre-reproductive M. quinquenervia.