Could Super-Milfoil be coming to your lake?

Sara Fox, Aquatic Invasive Species Outreach Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Extension, shares this story about a hybrid of Eurasian milfoil and native milfoils such as Northern milfoil. It is possible that heterosis, the “hybrid vigor” effect, could make this hybrid milfoil harder to control and a more successful than its invasive parents when it comes to spread and colonization.

Read the story here

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