I wanted to revive this thread and try to bring some attention to this topic. I've been hunting in little chenier area since 2006 and maybe 2-3 years ago I met a fella on here that hunted several miles north of us. I remember him saying that they had salvinia real bad and that it would make it to us in a matter of time. I thought surely not because our place has very tight canals and there are hardly any large canals that lead to our place so I figured the salvinia would never be able to travel. Well as you prolly guessed the salvinia has now made it to our marsh. I noticed it in 2014 in some nearby canals and this year noticed it in our canals. They are small patches but I've seen what it can do. Anyways......
I recently tried to contact Mr sanders who was over the weevil project at LSU as I understood, and discovered he has retired and the project/research is now in Mr Diaz's hands. I just got off the phone with him and trying to make conversation he all of a sudden asks "do you need weevils"? Well, mr Diaz you read my mind. Sadly, they are only supplying that state lands with the weevils because they do not have enough weevils to supply individuals like myself. He said they are currently trying to work something out to where individuals can come get them though.
Meantime, chemicals is obviously an option but they are expensive. Diaz suggested I collect salvinia from sites that the weevils have been introduced to and move the salvinia and weevils to our site. He is supposed to be sending me gps locations where the weevils have been introduced and go from there.
What would really be nice is if you wanna fellas had an inside hookup to wild life and fisheries to hook me up with some weevils!
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