Methodological recommendations for practical control of hogweed

As part of the international conference “Application of methods of influencing the hogweed population to restore biodiversity in the transboundary territories of Ukraine and Poland,” joint recommendations for the practical control of Sosnovsky’s hogweed were developed.

The conference was held on October 16-17, 2025, as an event promoting the project “Protection of biodiversity in the transboundary territories of Ukraine and Poland from invasive hogweed (Heracleum) populations,” no. PLUA.01.03-IP.01-0008/23, financed by the European Union under the Interreg NEXT Poland-Ukraine Program 2021-2027.

During the conference, a wide range of topics related to threats and methods to reduce the occurrence of invasive hogweed populations were presented. Participants discussed recommendations for a common methodology for controlling hogweed populations in various landscape areas of the Poland-UA border region.

As a result of the exchange of experiences on hogweed control, a document was developed containing:

• recommendations regarding these Based on existing methods for controlling Sosnowsky’s hogweed in Poland and Ukraine (Part 1);
• Selected laboratory and field research methods planned in the ZeroHeracleum project (Part 2) for controlling hogweed populations in various landscape areas of the Polish-Ukrainian border.

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