Biocontrol using Milfoil Solution® has a number of distinct advantages over more conventional treatments like mechanical harvesting and herbicides:
1. EnviroScience is simply utilizing a nature-based predator-prey relationship already found occurring in North American lakes. The benefit is using the most environmentally-safe and friendly approach available for milfoil control.
2. Because weevil populations naturally thrive in the wild, they sustain their own population and continue to control the milfoil year after year. Our clients benefit from long-term, sustainable control of the milfoil.
3. Long-term control equals cost-savings. Our program is more cost-effective than traditional short-term control methods such as harvesting or herbicides because our solution does not need to be re-applied every year. Once a large, sustainable population is established, nature takes its course!
4. Weevils are highly selective – All of the peer-reviewed scientific literature confirms that weevils only live on certain types of milfoils: Eurasian, Northern and/or a hybrid of the two. We guarantee zero negative impacts on other plants or animals or humans…weevils are completely safe which means zero worries about what’s being put in your lake.
5. The reduction of milfoil allows for native plants to move back in and re-establish in areas once dominated by milfoil. This benefit is by far one of the most important because the native plants will promote a healthy ecosystem and are one of the best defenses against milfoil or other invasive plants coming back. Diversity of the plant community is extremely beneficial to all aquatic life such as other insects, fish and waterfowl.
