Recent research found a species of snail that likes to munch on coffee plant-wrecking spores.
she realized something was up when she saw snail excrement on coffee leaves during a 2016 research trip to Puerto Rico. “It is pretty obvious that they’re eating the spores [that cause coffee leaf rust],” she was quoted as saying. “They eat the spores from the underneath of the leaf and basically clean the leaves of those spores.
However, as interesting as this finding may be, the researchers admit that simply spreading an invasive species into new ecosystems is probably not a great idea. Instead, Perfecto told thethat the larger lesson here is that natural problems can often be counteracted by natural solutions. “It’s not to say that none of these technological solutions won’t work, but rather than exclusively focusing on those things, we need to focus on the ecology of the system,” she said.
At this point, more research needs to be done. But if we do end up needing these spore-loving snails, we know they leave, uh, indicators of where to find them.
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