The other place is Newfoundland. In parts of the country where the beetle is controlling but not eradicating St. John's Wort, people who want it for personal use should be able to pick it wild, he says. Alternatively, he suggests growers could use an insecticide in the spring before the bugs lay their eggs. Pat Daley is a freelance writer and editor in Athlone in Simcoe County, Ontario who last summer lost her stand of St. John's Wort to anthracnose. But the beetles were pretty.
Some provinces have growers' associations.
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