<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Judy,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I'm glad we are giving this plant more attention. It is definitely an invasive in natural areas in the eastern states. See the EDDMapS based map of its distribution nationwide from the Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States. I saw large infestations of it along I-70 and I-68 this past weekend in Allegany and Washington Cos. in Maryland. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="http://www.invasiveplantatlas.org/subject.html?sub=3013">http://www.invasiveplantatlas.org/subject.html?sub=3013</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thank you,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Jil</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Hough-Goldstein, J A <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jhough@udel.edu" target="_blank">jhough@udel.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I am working on adding spotted knapweed to the list of invasive plants in the Mid-Atlantic that have biocontrol insects available for release, but the vast
majority of published work deals with infestations in western rangelands. The implication seems to be that it rarely becomes invasive in the east, but maybe that is changing.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Does anyone know of (1) infestations of knapweed in particular habitats in the east or (2) any states in the eastern US that have released biocontrol insects
targeting this species?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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