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NY unleashes predator bugs to eat hemlock pests | Adirondack Explorer

NY unleashes predator bugs to eat hemlock pests | Adirondack Explorer

Hemlocks are the fourth most populous tree in the Adirondack Park, and woolly adelgids are so small they can spread easily on the wind. The DEC continues to survey, but getting to remote locations and spotting infestations early is difficult, to say the least.

So the state is using all of its tools in the toolbox—or in the cooler—to treat the trees on Lake George. In addition to applying and injecting insecticides on the trees, the DEC is coordinating the introduction of three new species on Lake George, all of them bugs that love to eat adelgids

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