New York Times: data-para-count="260" data-total-count="260">This winter has been the warmest on record in much of New England. And while many people enjoyed the T-shirt weather, it made Claire E. Rutledge, a researcher with Connecticut's Agricultural Experiment Station, more concerned about what next season may hold.
Beginning in April, she will head to Wharton Brook and other state lands, setting traps for the southern pine beetle and checking them weekly through midsummer.
The beetles, which can kill thousands......
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Warmer Winter Brings Forest-Threatening Beetles North
Posted by New York Times: Tatiana Schlossberg on March 18th, 2016
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