Word: ragworts
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While he was still an adolescent, his father's farm had begun filling orders from all over the world. The New Zealand government sent for 60,000 pupae of the Cinnabar moth, hoping the caterpillars might eat up the country's ragwort weed. The Newmans supplied the pupae and the moths did well in New Zealand. They even ate some ragwort. But eventually, New Zealand birds ate most of the Cinnabars...
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