Recent information from the Department of Natural Resources & Mines (DNR&M) on the distribution of the Lantana bug (Aconophora compressa) suggests that populations are on the increase. The lantana bug was released in 1995 by DNR&M as a biological control for the invasive weed Lantana. Up until 2003 the bug had quietly worked away without causing any undue impacts outside its expected host range (lantana).