The third treatment for the northern block and second treatment for the southern block took place Saturday, beginning at first light and finishing shortly after noon. One helicopter had a malfunctioning GPS antenna, and remained grounded until a replacement part was brought in.
Ground crews continue to treat buffered areas around sensitive sites.
Therefore, the samples set will be discarded, and we will have no pre-treatment results to report out. Post treatment samples arrived on schedule, and analysis is in process. These will be reported as soon as results are available. Tissue samples were collected for analysis at the USDA lab. This species was only observed in Lake Sebring.