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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A task force created to prepare for another epidemic of the eastern spruce budworm — which destroyed up to 21% of Maine’s fir trees during the last major infestation almost 40 years ago — has released ...

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As wildfires in northern Minnesota continue to spread, the Department of Natural Resources says an insect may be helping to fuel the flames. The region has been experiencing a spruce budworm outbreak, ...

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 ...

BRIMSON — Bob and Colleen Christianson cut the fire risk to their property this summer when they cut and mulched dead and dying balsam fir trees left in the wake of a spruce budworm outbreak. “It’s ...

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 ...

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