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Originally Posted by RI Swamp Yankee
I came accross this recently, sounds like a safe natural alternative.
Over the past eight years, EnviroScience, Inc. has been working with Middlebury College (VT) to make MiddFoil® available to the general public. MiddFoil uses an aquatic beetle native to Canada and the northern US to combat the spread of Eurasian watermilfoil, an invasive aquatic weed that has spread like wildfire across North America.
Based on eight years of intensive field application and more than 12 years of university research, MiddFoil has proven itself to be the only long-term, environmentally-friendly alternative to herbicides and mechanical harvesting for large scale infestations.
http://www.enviroscienceinc.com/cgi-...section&id=253 |
As I recall from the treatment issues at my small lake in Wakefield - there are a couple types of milfoil - and the beetle only works on Eurasian, and the findings were incolnclusive as to long term results. Plus - who wants to swim with a whole mess of beetles in the water!!!
