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Fighting Bugs with Bugs: How Maine's Midcoast Is Defending Its Hemlocks
Midcoast Maine land trusts and officials released tens of thousands of Laricobius beetles to reduce invasive adelgid populations and protect eastern hemlocks.
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Fighting bugs with bugs: How Maine's Midcoast is defending its hemlocks
The frontline of Maine’s battle against the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid is concentrated in the Midcoast, where the tiny insect is wreaking havoc on its namesake evergreens.
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How Midcoast Maine is defending its hemlocks
Maine Forest Service entomologist Colleen Teerling gently places a colony of Laricobius nigrinus beetles on the tip of a hemlock branch. Photo courtesy the New England Forestry Foundation.The frontline of Maine’s battle against the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid is concentrated in the Midcoast, where the tiny insect is wreaking havoc on its namesake evergreens. After arriving in Kittery more than two decades ago, the adelgid has traveled up Mai…
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