http://www.universalhub.com/taxonomy/term/4488/0 en-US http://www.universalhub.com/node/22871 <p>While Worcester desperately <a href="http://www.universalhub.com/taxonomy/term/3748">tries to eradicate one beetle species</a>, a group in eastern Massachusetts is looking for volunteers to help raise another species.</p> <p>The Neponset River Watershed Association is looking for volunteers to <a href="http://friendsofthebluehills.blogspot.com/2009/01/help-neprwa-raise-beetles.html">help nurture Galerucella beetles, which eat purple loosestrife</a>, to help control the pretty-yet-destructive invasive weed now choking off marshes across the state:</p> <p><a href="http://www.universalhub.com/node/22871" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.universalhub.com/node/22871#comments Dorchester Hyde Park Mattapan Neponset River purple loosestrife Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:17:36 +0000 adamg 22871 at http://www.universalhub.com