Some criteria for prioritisation
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Successful biological control agents should fulfill the following three criteria, they must be:

adequately host specific,
potentially damaging, and
able to build up to large populations to realise their potential to damage.

I suggest agents likely to fulfill all three criteria should be given a high priority.

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Jennifer Marohasy