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Christopher Watson

Christopher Watson

State Entomologist and Insect & Nursery Program Manager at the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food (UDAF)

Jul 30, 2026

16:34
Are those kinds of treatments done?
16:36
Not necessarily treatments in that way.
16:38
I know that there's studies going on about... basically biological controls.
16:45
And they look at that for what is already here.
16:49
They naturally collapse, right? These populations don't just continue to build and build and build.
16:55
That's a natural phenomenon to say, right? To some extent where building populations That's the cyclical cycle that I was referring to every 20 years.
17:05
Otherwise they just, if there was a full on invasive, it would likely just build and build and build until there was some other type of collapse or whatever.

8 MINS LATER

25:35
Let me go learn about them.

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