Dead tree in remote NC is hiding colony of rarely seen creatures, biologists say

A winged creature not caught in North Carolina for more than a decade has been rediscovered, and the circumstances resemble ...
Grist

The Northeast’s hemlock trees face extinction. A tiny fly could save them.

It’s a warm day in early June, and researcher Nicholas Dietschler is standing in front of an eastern hemlock sapling about a quarter of a mile up a steep ridge in New York’s Catskill Mountains. The ...
thetimesherald

To protect hemlock trees, quarantine in west Michigan expanded

Tiny cotton ball-looking masses clinging to the branch of a hemlock tree can mean the death of their host and danger to the forest around them. An invasive insect has been spreading along Michigan's ...
Juneau Empire

Why are Juneau’s hemlock trees turning brown? This one insect is to blame.

A half-dozen browned hemlock trees is an unsettling sight for Juneau resident Lisa Meyers, especially when they’re in close vicinity of her home. “I had to live in California for 25 years, so I’m kind ...
The Providence Journal

Battle of the bugs: RI deploys predator beetles to protect hemlock trees from invasive insect

Rhode Island is mobilizing a small army of "tiny but mighty" bugs to help save its majestic hemlock trees. Brought into the Ocean State from Virginia, the predator beetles named Laricobius nigrinus ...
EurekAlert!

Study finds hemlock trees dying rapidly, affecting forest carbon cycle

Otto, NC – New research by U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists and partners suggests the hemlock woolly adelgid is killing hemlock trees faster than expected in the southern ...
Hyperallergic

A Forest Elegy for the Rapidly Vanishing American Hemlock Tree

“Exchange Tree,” installation in Harvard Forest, wood and acrylic paint. Collaborators: David Buckley Borden, Aaron Ellison, Salvador Jiménez-Flores, and Salua Rivero (courtesy David Buckley Borden) ...
PBS

Tech Bytes: Invasive Species To The Hemlock Tree

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