Reports

If you launch a boat in the Finger Lakes region or along Lake Ontario and elsewhere, you’ve probably been interviewed by some of the attendants hired to inform people and check boats for invasive species.  Cayuga has had some hydrilla in it for quite some time.  It’s mostly contained as far as I know, but there’s some in the marina at Myers as well as in the private marina over there and around the cove by Wells College/Long Point area.

When I got back in to Myers marina today after my truncated morning trip, I saw some Cornell and DEC personnel docked at the marina.  I had talked to them before and knew that they were motoring around the lake looking for hydrilla.  One of the guys was nice enough to spend a little time with me and showed me some hydrilla in the marina.  It looks a lot like elodea, which is a common (I believe native) plant found throughout the region.   He pulled up some of each weed and showed me how to differentiate the two of them.  They both look a lot alike, but the main difference is that the hydrilla leaves have a serrated edge to them.