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Maine Winter Tough on Invasive Insects

Courtesy Maine.gov
An adult male winter moth.

AUGUSTA, Maine - If you think you had it rough this winter, consider the winter moth: The population of the ill-named insect was devastated. Irwin Gratz talked with Charlene Donohue, a forest entomologist with the Maine Forest Service. Donohue says, despite its name, the "winter moth," like the "hemlock wooley adelgid," is an invasive species that hasn't learned how to seek shelter from the elements.