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Parts of the North Cascades and Mount Baker are facing an outbreak of the western spruce budworm, aerial surveys reveal. The ...
Annual cold snaps have kept some invasive tree pests in check, but outbreaks could become more common with warming ...
The Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) has launched an investigation into a Sitka spruce aphid outbreak around Yachats on ...
This summer the Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture’s Spruce Budworm Early Intervention Control Program will be active along parts of Western Newfoundland and the Northern Peninsula.
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (WAGM) - Folks are working to prevent the Spruce budworm population from getting out of control in our Northern Maine Woods. This time of year, buds of the spruce and fir trees ...
As for those wildfire-fueling caterpillars — the eastern spruce budworm, to be precise — they defoliated some 712,000 acres, or 1,100 square miles, of Minnesota forests last summer, almost all ...
Jun. 2—A government-funded campaign has begun spraying insecticides and biological agents on 240,000 acres of Maine's North Woods infested with spruce budworm, a voracious forest pest that ...
Fueled by an ongoing infestation in Quebec, budworm levels in northern Maine are on the verge of being considered out of control on several hundred thousand acres. And forest owners are scrambling to ...
A new U of A study shows how white spruce trees and fungi team up to survive and ward off attacks from the spruce budworm—an alliance that could point to ways to boost the resilience of forests ...
Spruce budworm outbreaks have been reported in Lake County, Cook County and St. Louis County. The insects infected more than 700,000 acres of forest last year, marking the largest impact recorded ...
Spruce budworm outbreaks have been reported in Lake County, Cook County and St. Louis County. The insects infected more than 700,000 acres of forest last year, marking the largest impact recorded ...