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Tue, 16 Jun 2015 22:17:24 GMT — An unwanted guest could take a deadly toll on your trees. The Department of Natural Resources is warning people about the spruce budworm, and they're saying it's going ...

Populations of spruce budworm remained low across northern Maine this year, although entomologists caution that simply means the next outbreak of the destructive forest pest is delayed, not avoided.

Many who were in uniform that eventful day six years ago when peace came to a war wrecked world, celebrated the anniversary of the termination of the great war Tuesday by taking part in a varied and ...

A notice went out in our subdivision on Yale Creek in Island Park that it was western spruce budworm season. This year, the subdivision had arranged for a drone to spray the trees on properties for a ...

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 ...

WENATCHEE -- If you have driven over Blewett Pass on Highway 97 lately, you might think the whole forest is about to die, or huge chunks of it, anyway. It is not the only place in north central ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dead and damaged trees are being left in the wake of the spruce budworms as they eat their way through the vibrant forest in Gros ...

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 ...

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 ...