Jeanne Scherer-UW Madison Extension Statewide Purple Loosestrife Biocontrol Coordinator and Amanda Schmitz -Waukesha County Aquatic Invasive Species Coordinator, will teach about the biocontrol process and how YOU can get involved in raising beetles at Retzer Nature Center or even at home this summer to help manage purple loosestrife in Waukesha County. Beetles and volunteers have helped us reduce the risks and costs of chemical control and the difficulty of manual control, especially in large wetlands, for over 25 years!

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More about Galerucella beetles:

Introduced to the U.S. as part of a carefully studied and controlled process in the mid-1990s, two species of Galerucella beetles have helped Wisconsin manage the invasive wetland plant. Volunteers have been essential to the process by helping rear them.