Q: Is the flea beetle cure for leafy spurge going to be a worse problem than the plant itself? We are already trying to deal with flea beetles. A: Not to worry. The flea beetles that eat leafy ...

Leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula) is a creeping perennial native to Eurasia. It was most likely introduced into the U.S. as a contaminate in seed. It invades rangelands, roadsides, pastures ...

Invasive leafy spurge weed: Digital cameras open new view of America's West Date: September 6, 2011 Source: USDA/Agricultural Research Service Summary: An aerial photography survey of 38,000 ...

We are back to another biocontrol agent in our cycle of species spotlight, and it’s not hard to guess what this agent feeds on: leafy spurge. The flea beetles used to control leafy spurge get the ...

Are you looking to get rid of some leafy spurge on your property? Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring announced that persons interested in acquiring flea beetles, and redistributing them on their ...

Yellow-green patches in a pasture might look pretty for the uninitiated, but the tell-tale bloom of leafy spurge is not a spring sight many of us want to see. While there are many plants livestock ...

Leafy Spurge Dataset is a challenging real-world benchmark to galvanize efforts to find and remove invasive plants within drone imagery of the Montana prairie, and restore natural ecosystems in ...

MOSCOW, Idaho — Madison County rancher Galen Lusk has grown accustomed to finding isolated patches of leafy spurge within his dryland pastures in recent years. This season, however, a wet spring ...

When walking by the river in Chief Whitecap dog park at the end of June, I noticed a very large colourful caterpillar feeding on a leafy spurge plant. This black, red and white caterpillar was ...

“We need a million more bugs,” said Ben Beall, Routt County resident and member of the Yampa River Leafy Spurge Project working group. For the past four years, as well as during a 12-mile educational ...

The Yampa Valley Leafy Spurge Project has been combatting the leafy spurge invasion along the banks of the Yampa River this summer, and now they have some more help. The group recently released an ...

Kaltenbach and CDA staff assisted the Leafy Spurge Project volunteers as they sorted and packed 14,000 leafy spurge beetles that were collected. The beetles were placed in small flasks, each ...