April 5, 2009
Beetle Nursery Workshop
Teamwork made enjoyable the job of cleaning, potting, and placing ten Purple Loosestrife plants that will be used as breeding sites for a shipment of Galerucella beetles scheduled to arrive in May. Purple loosestrife is the only host plant for these beetles, which have been used very successfully across the country to control the spread and invasive growth of this beautiful but destructive plant. The rest of the shipment of beetles will be released in the loosestrife-infested wetland on the north side of Little Fresh Pond
The team (center photo): Squizzle Plekavich, Jan McCarter, Susan DeAngelis, Emily Tansey, Lore Levitt, Betsey Meyer, and Elizabeth Wylde (not in photo).
The plants are lined up along the Pond-side of the Water Treatment Plant (third photo).