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Cooperative Forestry Research Unit
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The Cooperative Forestry Research Unit (CFRU) connects Maine’s forestry community with the University of Maine. CFRU scientists conduct applied research that provides Maine’s forest landowners, forestry community, and policymakers with the information needed to ensure both sustainable forestry practices and science-based forest policy.
Healthy Forest Partnership EIS update spring 2024
Drew Carlton gives an update on the success of the Early Intervention Strategy (EIS) program in New Brunswick. Presented at the CFRU Spring Advisory Committee Meeting on April 23, 2024
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Early Intervention Strategy (EIS) update, Natural Resources Canada, spring 2024
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Rob Johns, Forest Insect Ecologist with Natural Resources Canada, gives an overview of the Early Intervention Strategy being used regionally to manage budworm populations. Presented at the CFRU Advisory Committee Meeting on April 23, 2024.
Maine Forest Service Spruce Budworm Monitoring update, spring 2024
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Mike Parisio, Forest Entomologist with the Maine Forest Services, provides the latest spruce budworm monitoring report from the 2023 season. Presented at the CFRU Advisory Committee Meeting on April 23, 2024.
Spruce Budworm Lab L2 update, spring 2024
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Dr. Angela Mech provides an update on the latest L2 results from the Spruce Budworm Lab at the University of Maine. Presented at the CFRU Advisory Committee Meeting on April 23, 2024.
Identify and Report Jumping Worms in Maine
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Jumping worms have been found in the United States from Maine to South Carolina and west to Wisconsin. Active and damaging populations of jumping worms were discovered in Maine in 2014 in Augusta, Portland, and Boothbay. Jumping worms are widespread in Maine and have been found in 13/16 counties in Maine as of August 2023. We need your help to slow the spread of these destructive worms by repor...
Browntail Moth Community Web Clipping at RSU 26
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Allison Kanoti, Director of Forest Health and Monitoring with the Maine Forest Service, gives an overview of browntail moth at a volunteer pruning event at RSU 26. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry has declared February Browntail Moth Awareness month. Why? These invasive itchy caterpillars have been defoliating and delivering rashes all over Maine in their most rec...
Beech Leaf Disease - Background & How to Survey
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Beech Leaf Disease was found in Maine in 2021. We are still learning about how beech leaf disease is spread and it's long term effects, but researchers do know a couple things for certain: it's bad more bad news for American beech, already under stress from the long established beech bark disease. BLD causes serious foliage dieback and eventual mortality. Filmed in the Penobscot Experimental Fo...
Beech Leaf Disease nematodes
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Beech Leaf Disease (BLD) was first detected in Maine in June of 2021 in Lincolnville. American beech, European beech, and oriental beech are prone to the disease, with other species of beech still being studied for susceptibility. Symptoms can include dark bands between the veins of leaves, shriveled, deformed, or curled leaves, premature leaf drop, and more. The non-native nematode (Litylenchu...
Spruce budworm L2 sampling
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A new CFRU funded lab at the University of Maine Orono will assist landowners in monitoring their trees for the presence of spruce budworm, essential to tracking a developing outbreak of this native insect. Angela Mech, UMaine assistant professor of forest entomology, is the leading the lab. The budworm lab is live and you can access their site below for L2 information and further sampling info...
Automatic spruce budworm phermone trap
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Dr. Neil Thompson (UMFK/CFRU) explains how this spruce budworm pheromone trap automatically counts the number of moths caught each day. Sent to us by our friends at Natural Resources Canada, these traps are placed in two locations in northern Maine, Stockholm and New Canada. Want to see how the population of adult moths are looking this summer? This website (link provided below) also managed by...
Find the Budworm
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Dr. Neil Thompson (UMFK/CFRU) describes the likely places to find spruce budworm in Maine. Check out the Maine Forest Service 2020 report on spruce budworm: digitalmaine.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1281&context=for_docs Want to know more about spruce budworm L2's in Maine? Visit www.sprucebudwormmaine.org/map/l2-survey-maps/ Healthy Forest Partnership is an Atlantic-wide partnership between...
reme.ber a couple of years back lots of folk had seeds sent to them from china could this b how they arrived here
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The Indian blues sometimes thrash like this too. And some said even other worms does it too. The main points are the very bright white or yellow band, plust snake like movement instead of contracting and extending. Their thrashing is also side to side. They are also fast moving.
Do other worms have this banding? I remember finding worms with the band as a kid 30 years ago in Pittsburgh suburbs.
Will mustard powder from brown mustard seed work or does it have to be yellow?
Have chickens
Can you use them for fish bait?
No. This is how jumping worms spread. It is illegal to propagate or possess them without a wildlife importation permit from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.
Unfortunately we can't stop natural selection. Environments change with time, some plants and trees won't adapt to these changes and they die out. Others will adapt, overcome, and then continue to multiply for generations. Nature just works that way. Only the strongest survive.
We hope to live in ME soon. Ugh. Not sure but we may have them at our house in Vermont. They are taking over! 😢
Just found them in Mount Vernon.
I just found them in my garden in Freeport
I just found this video after searching to see if too many worms are harmful to gardens. I have never seen this worm nor even seen the coffee ground-like residue it leaves behind, until this year. The ground was softened in an area where we cut down a tree, both around the stump and a huge circle a short distance from it. At first, I thought it was due to all the rain and the possibility of the stump and roots rotting quicker than normal. Just using my foot I moved the soil around and they were there. My hosta gardens are new to me and we have used a lot of seafood compost sold locally by the truckload. However not on this particular spot. Oakland Maine. :-(
It just takes 1 to put 300 eggs
Infested here in Manchester, Me
Just found one today in my yard in eliot, me. I’m going to treat the area tomorrow and dig up the soil in that area and sterilize it
Just found them in a bag of Coast of Maine compost!! I thought they heat sterilized this product but apparently not......I love their products but this is insane.
I believe I've introduced these worms via Coast of Maine compost, too. Did not have any issues in our garden until the season I used their compost. Really tragic.
It's awesome