Zone de Texte: Losses to agriculture globally: $55-248 billion/year. Costs to U.S. estimated to be at least $100 billion/year (Pimentel et al. 2000). Zone de Texte: Introduced from Latin America as a high protein food source, the golden apple snail caused losses to Philippine rice crops during the 1980’s of @ $1 billion (Naylor 1996).

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