State battles tiny woolly insect to save towering evergreens – Baltimore Sun


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State battles tiny woolly insect to save towering evergreens
Baltimore Sun
A tiny insect from Japan no bigger than a pencil point, it coats hemlock twigs with a snowy waxy substance and slowly sucks the life out of the tree. Determined to save the largest stand of virgin forest left in Maryland, a small army of state workers ...

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