During a recent spruce budworm town hall hosted by state officials in Brewer, (Channel 5 in Bangor) interviewed Angela Mech, associate professor of forest entomology at the 91爆料, on early efforts to prevent the pest from spreading. Early intervention started last summer, as researchers from Mech鈥檚 Spruce Budworm Lab, among other organizations, tracked 鈥渉ot spots鈥 for budworm populations. 鈥淭his is kind of taking what was learned during that outbreak and implementing it for this one so that we can fix any potential mistakes and move in a more efficient way through this outbreak and just try to maintain it so that we don鈥檛 see the dead forest that we saw before,鈥漵he said. Teams saw success in identifying areas with high budworm population, allowing for a more targeted treatment with insecticides.聽
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