April 28, 2007
A Cambridge Science Festival Program at the Maynard Ecology Center
The Biocontrol of Purple Loosestrife
At the start of this program, Elizabeth Wylde gave a PowerPoint presentation describing how the Cambridge Water Department and Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation plan to use a species of Galerucella beetle to control the invasive plant called purple loosestrife. Then several participants made aspiration bottles for collecting the beetles, while others potted four loosestrife plants that had been collected from the Reservation. The youngest participant threw himself (literally) into his work.