The Whitehall Ledger - Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana

The Whitehall Bio Control team managed to collect all 120+ releases of leafy spurge flea beetles. Thank you to the local landowner who allowed us to collect on their fine property. This week we have a bit of a lull in insect collections as the toadflax and spurge insects are finished and the spotted knapweed insects have not emerged in great enough numbers to be collectable. We will clean up the insectary at the high school and monitor past and future release sites. We are hearing from many landowners that have received releases of insects from us in the past that they are really starting t...