{"id":95616,"date":"2025-11-03T04:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=95616"},"modified":"2025-11-04T09:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:32:48","slug":"rockets-work-to-remove-invasive-species-growing-along-ottawa-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_03_2025\/rockets-work-to-remove-invasive-species-growing-along-ottawa-river","title":{"rendered":"Rockets Work to Remove Invasive Species Growing Along Ottawa River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives of Greening UToledo Through Service Learning (GUTS) and the Jesup Scott Honors College, among other organizations, came together Friday, Oct. 31, in a shared effort to remove tree of heaven, a host plant for the invasive spotted lanternflies that were readily identifiable on campus this summer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-95618\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10312025-0164.jpg\" alt=\"Representatives of Greening UToledo Through Service Learning (GUTS) and the Jesup Scott Honors College, among other organizations, came together Friday, Oct. 31, in a shared effort to remove tree of heaven, a host plant for the invasive spotted lanternflies that were readily identifiable on campus this summer.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10312025-0164.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10312025-0164-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GUTS is facilitating removal efforts this fall <a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/09_26_2025\/invasive-pests-present-service-learning-opportunities\">as a service-learning opportunity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers used the \u201cslash and squirt\u201d method to apply herbicide on Friday, prompting a Halloween-inspired nickname for the work: \u201cNightmare of Dorr Street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Uhlir, a junior in environmental science, cuts brush from the northern bank of the Ottawa River, behind the Center for Performing Arts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-95619\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10312025-4634.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Uhlir. a junior in environmental science, carries cut brush from the northern bank of the Ottawa River, behind the Center for Performing Arts.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10312025-4634.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10312025-4634-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_03_2025\/rockets-work-to-remove-invasive-species-growing-along-ottawa-river\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10312025-0164-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Representatives of Greening UToledo Through Service Learning (GUTS) and the Jesup Scott Honors College, among other organizations, came together Friday, Oct. 31, in a shared effort to remove tree of heaven, a host plant for the invasive spotted lanternflies that were readily identifiable on campus this summer.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Representatives of Greening UToledo Through Service Learning (GUTS) and the Jesup Scott Honors College, among other organizations, came together Friday to remove tree of heaven, a host plant for the invasive spotted lanternflies that were readily identifiable on campus this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":95618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,36,39,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95616"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95644,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95616\/revisions\/95644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}