MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- You would not expect to see mosquito control crews out and about while there is still snow and ice on the ground -- but they are. Crews from the Metropolitan Mosquito Control ...

Cattails, typha angustifolia (narrow leaf) or typha latifolia (broad leaf), have a distinct look at the edge of ponds and are wetland plants. The flower head is a spike and shaped like a long cylinder ...

Claim to fame: Cattails are one of the best-known aquatic plants in Missouri and throughout much of North America. These tall, shallow-water plants with their familiar brown cylindrical seed-heads can ...

A few people have written lately asking how to get rid of cattails in the wet areas of their landscapes, including reader J.P., who says they are spreading into the tree line. Of the three species of ...

Biologists at Voyageurs National Park are counting on the voracious appetite of rodents to help contain a cattail invasion. Several decades ago, cattails with narrow leaves and short, brown flower ...

ROSEAU RIVER WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA, Minn. — The contrast told the story. Part of the wall of cattails on the eastern edge of this massive wildlife management area had been sprayed by helicopter a ...

Minnesota’s mosquito season is almost upon us — and that means the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District is getting to work. “We’ll be out there treating, so hopefully, [it] shouldn’t be unbearable,” ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.—Walk along most any lake or wetland in southern Minnesota and chances are you’ll see lots of cattails. But look closer, and you may not like what’s happening. Where native cattails ...