<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_39935" dir="ltr">Spotted knapweed is one of the invasives at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia, New York. I've found it in meadows of Syracuse and the surrounding areas in upstate New York.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_39936"><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_39937"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40047" class="signature"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40046"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40127"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40147" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;color:rgb(0, 127, 64);">Cheryl Joy Lipton</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 127, 64);"></span><span style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40149"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40148" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;">Ecology, Landscape Architecture<br></span></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40048" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40051" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40050" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40049" style="line-height:18px;font-weight:100;" class="yiv3576494782m_text">big changes aren't made by large gestures alone - they are made in the little things all of us do every day.</span></span><br style="color:rgb(0, 127, 64);"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40118" rel="nofollow" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenlivinginsideandout.com/index.html"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40117" style="color:rgb(0, 127, 64);">Green Living - Inside and Out</span></a><br style="color:rgb(0, 127, 64);font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40119" style="color:rgb(0, 127, 64);font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;">610-631-5459</span><br></div></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40054" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40053" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40052" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40120" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "Hough-Goldstein, J A" <jhough@udel.edu><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> MA-IPC Listserve <maipc@lists.maipc.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 1, 2015 10:29 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [MAIPC] spotted knapweed in the east<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40107" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv6771017784">
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40115" class="yiv6771017784MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">All,</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40109" class="yiv6771017784MsoNormal"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40202" style="font-size:11.0pt;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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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40204" class="yiv6771017784MsoNormal"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40203" style="font-size:11.0pt;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?</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40205" class="yiv6771017784MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Thanks,</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439471643032_40206" class="yiv6771017784MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Judy</span></div>
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