Buddy school system
The buddy school system is designed to encourage one Weed Warriors school to help other Weed Warriors schools with the challenges they face. The buddy school system helps to overcome challenges such as where a school exists in an area that has a weed problem, but have no access to the biological control agent for that weed or where urban schools have no access to weed infestations for the target weed.
Case Study:
School students in South Australia rear the horehound plume moth in their classroom and post them to Wakool Primary School in NSW. The students at Wakool Primary School then continue to breed and expand the horehound plume moth colony provided to them and then release them onto horehound infestations in the Wakool area, helping to provide a weed management tool to the local community that was previously not available.
Case Study:
A school in metropolitan Melbourne rears the bridal creeper leafhoppers even though they have no infestations of bridal creeper within 80 kms of the school. The urban schools send their leafhoppers to a rural school in an area infested with bridal creeper. The rural kids release the hoppers and report back to their 'city cousins'. The city students plan to visit the release site on their next school camp.
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