 Methods of control include applications of "Metarhizium anisopliae" along with other biocontrol strategies, however, pest control against cane beetles also damages a large variety of other insects and invertebrates that can be beneficial to the ecosystem, thus preventing their use.The introduction of the cane toad to Australia was a biocontrol attempt.The greyback cane beetle was, along with the Frenchi cane beetle, "Lepidiota frenchi", the reason that the cane toad ("Rhinella marina") was introduced to Australia.