Learn About Whitehall Bio Control: 6/19/2024

The Whitehall Biological Weed Control Project (based in Whitehall) of Jefferson County is in full swing for the summer season. The high school-aged students have now started working, and we are busy taking care of the insectary at the Whitehall football field next to the I-90 Whitehall exit, collecting and releasing biocontrol insects, and monitoring for landowners to see how the insects are impacting their noxious weeds. The whitetop mite and the yellow toadflax stem boring weevil release season is over for this year. We hope to have these bioagents available next spring in small numbers for...