This article was submitted by Megan Shaw (SLELO PRISM education outreach and communications coordinator) and Richard Drosse ...
The DNR says this poses a threat to both forest and landscape hemlocks. The balsam woolly adelgid is also an insect and attacks true fir trees. Balsam and Fraser firs in Wisconsin are particularly ...
Today, park officials estimate that 95 percent of Shenandoah’s hemlocks have succumbed to the adelgid. To preserve Shenandoah’s remaining hemlocks, a handful of park employees inject insecticide into ...
HWA was introduced into the eastern United States from Japan in 1951 by the import of infected hemlocks. Since its introduction, HWA has spread to 17 states (from Georgia to Maine) and causes the ...
FREDERICTON - The offspring of beetles imported from British Columbia are ready to take up the fight against an invasive insect that is killing hemlock trees in Nova Scotia. Last fall and spring ...
Aided by climate change and mild winters, research has suggested the insect could wipe out about 90 per cent of hemlocks in Nova Scotia. It has also been seen in parts of Ontario. Hemlocks are a ...
Aided by climate change and mild winters, research has suggested the insect could wipe out about 90 per cent of hemlocks in Nova Scotia. It has also been seen in parts of Ontario. Hemlocks are a ...