Yahoo

Budworms ravaged Maine's forests for years. They're starting to come back.

Nov. 18—A spruce budworm outbreak has plagued Maine's northern borders for nearly two decades, with the tree-killing moths making sporadic incursions from Quebec but never reaching numbers that ...
Maine Public

Maine's spruce budworm pesticide campaign enters second year

Maine Forest Service tried to recruit small landowners that couldn't participate in the early intervention program last year.
Daily Hampshire Gazette

Speaking of Nature: Winter Finch Forecast: Spruce budworm boom could result in opportunities to see many species of birds

Spruce trees provide two types of food; cones like this one that contain seeds for birds to eat and needles that caterpillars eat. / BILL DANIELSON / For the Gazette Sign up for the Gazette's morning ...
Yahoo News Canada

As spruce budworm numbers rise, so does the battle against them — except in Gros Morne

A spraying program is quadrupling to battle rising spruce budworm numbers in western Newfoundland, but Parks Canada has decided to opt out of the effort and let nature take its course within Gros ...
WABI-TV

Spruce budworm presents threat to economy as spring nears closer

NORTHERN MAINE (WAGM/WABI) - As snow is melting across Maine, bugs will become a problem for Mainer’s once again. Some bugs, such as the spruce budworm, are even a threat to our economy. Spruce ...
The Durango Herald

Spruce, fir sale designed to combat budworm infestation

A logging sale proposed on the San Juan National Forest north of Dolores is tapping into the spruce and fir market, but it is also designed to combat the Western spruce budworm infestation. If ...
WDIO

Concern over outbreak of spruce budworm and potential risk for fires

With snow rapidly melting this week, a reminder that wildfire season is coming up. Red Beard Clearing and Cutting owner Sean Klongerbo goes up into the trees and cuts them down. His company ...
Portland Press Herald

Mills proposes $2M for preventative spruce budworm spraying

An error has occurred. Please try again. With a The Portland Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do not have any active ...
The Daily News of Newburyport

The spruce budworms make their return

The spruce budworm is a native moth that, when in its caterpillar stage, defoliates fir and spruce trees. Three times in the 1900’s, the last being in the late 1980’s, it reached epidemic proportions ...
JSTOR Daily

Spruce Budworm Growth, Development and Food Utilization on Young and Old Balsam Fir Trees

Laboratory rearing of spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana, in conjunction with field rearing, gravimetric analyses, a transfer experiment, and foliage chemical analyses at six dates during the ...
Portland Press Herald

Budworms ravaged Maine’s forests for years. They’re starting to come back.

An error has occurred. Please try again. With a The Portland Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do not have any active ...