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Biotech company uses DNA to manage watermilfoil
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Managing a plant whose native, invasive and hybrid species look nearly identical is nearly impossible without some scientific guidance.
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New detection method could halt Great Lakes killer
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A recent study says that the test could help target streams for treatment and sort invasive lamprey from those that are native.
Forests
Hope for ash
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The emerald ash borer has killed big trees and plenty of them. And while forests are unlikely to recover those numbers, experts say that when big trees die, insect numbers drop. That gives at least a chance of survival for new seedlings in pure stands of ash where other trees cannot take over.
Wildlife
Grass carp shows up in St. Lawrence River
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The invasive fish may have traveled from Lake Erie.
Invaders
Spiny water flea clouds lake and its future
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The harm it causes one Wisconsin lake could take millions of dollars to reverse. That has implications for lakes throughout the region.
Echo
Fungal diseases threaten Great Lakes walnut, butternuts
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The fungus has wiped out about 90 percent of Michigan’s butternut trees.
Wildlife
Siren song for lamprey closer to Great Lakes use
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A pheremone that could lure the destructive sea lamprey to its death has gained registration as the first biopesticide for a vertebrate.
Wildlife
Ecological casualties: winners and losers in the war on carp
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If Asian carp cross the Mississippi River basin and establish themselves in Lake Erie, they could account for one-third of the lake’s entire fish weight.
Wildlife
Round goby a good-news, bad-news Great Lakes invader
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Crayfish populations are up since the round goby invaded Lake Erie and became the preferred food of small mouthed bass.
Land
Speed scouting for soybean aphids saves farmers time, money
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The new technique for spotting the invasive bugs could boost efficiency, but farmers haven’t been quick to adopt it.