Gander has bugs on the brain
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The Town of Gander has announced that it will once again be partaking in the spruce budworm tracking program.
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The Town of Gander has announced that it will once again be partaking in the spruce budworm tracking program.
Read moreNew Brunswick has just finished spraying more than 80,000 hectares of forest against the spruce budworm, the dreaded insect that infests the province every 30 years or so.
Read moreFederal government scientists believe that it is probably too late to counteract the spread of the spruce budworm in Quebec and that it is necessary to prepare for a major epidemic.
Read moreLes scientifiques du gouvernement fédéral croient qu’il est sans doute trop tard pour contrer la propagation de la tordeuse des bourgeons de l’épinette au Québec et qu’il faut se préparer à une épidémie importante.
Read moreDepuis quelques jours, des milliers de papillons de la tordeuse des bourgeons de l'épinette ont été aperçus à divers endroits sur la Côte-Nord, notamment à Baie-Comeau.
Read moreResearchers are testing new ways of keeping another spruce budworm outbreak from happening - by stopping the worm's moth from reproducing.
Read moreRosanne Lamb and Glen Forbes of the Canadian Forest Service have set up a 'mating disruption' project in the Acadia Research Forest in New Brunswick.
Read moreTake a close look at a spruce or fir tree and if there are spots of brown on its branches where there should be needles, chances are it's the work of a spruce budworm.
Read moreLa guerre à la tordeuse des bourgeons de l'épinette s'apprête à reprendre dans le Bas-Saint-Laurent. C’est dans cette région que l'épidémie est la plus virulente actuellement au Québec.
Read moreLa tordeuse des bourgeons de l’épinette est un insecte indigène qui cause de nombreux dommages aux sapins et aux épinettes au Canada.
Read moreIs Newfoundland and Labrador on the verge of another outbreak of the spruce budworm? That’s the question scientists in western Newfoundland are trying to answer. NTV’s Don Bradshaw reports.
Read moreSpruce budworm is one of the most damaging native insects affecting spruce and fir trees in Canada so the better we understand its biology, the better we understand the impacts it has on our forests.
Read moreIf you’re a bug nerd, the federal government needs your help. Natural Resources Canada is looking for so-called citizen scientists to help in its battle against spruce budworm, a moth that has devastated forests in parts of Eastern Canada.
Read moreNatural Resources Canada’s Canadian Forest Service (NRCan-CFS) is committed to keeping our country’s forests healthy now and into the future.
Read moreThe Healthy Forest Partnership is an Atlantic-wide group or researchers, governments and industry who are working together to implement an innovative early detection and treatment method to respond to the serious threat of a spruce budworm outbreak.
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