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Looking up at a pale blue sky through a hemlock tree that is still a bit thin from previous woolly adelgid infestation, but is covered in bright green growth tips. In the lower right of the photo, a bundle of yellow-tan excelsior containing a hundred tiny beetles is clipped with a clothespin.

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Looking up at a pale blue sky through a hemlock tree that is still a bit thin from previous woolly adelgid infestation, but is covered in bright green growth tips. In the lower right of the photo, a bundle of yellow-tan excelsior containing a hundred tiny beetles is clipped with a clothespin.
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Bill, organizer of stuff (wcbdata@vis.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 06:38:54 JST Bill, organizer of stuff

I've deployed the ST beetles to our huge eastern hemlocks!
This is the second season we've put them out to devour the hemlock woolly adelgid pest that has been destroying native hemlocks all over New England (and other places, too.) 100 of these little (smaller than a pinhead) buggers will clear two or three 80-foot hemlocks of adelgid, and with luck, we'll develop a resident colony!
#gardening #trees
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemlock_woolly_adelgid

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