Forestcast Season 1: Balance and Barrier - Episode 4: When A Single Clone Caused An Invasion
Release Date
March 19, 2020
With no parasitic wasps — like we have for emerald ash borer — and no miracle fungal pathogen — as with gypsy moth — our control options for the nonnative insect threatening Eastern hemlock forests, the hemlock woolly adelgid, have been tricky. Hemlock forests, and the hemlocks in your yard, are paying the price.
In this Episode meet
- Nathan Havill, Research Entomologist, Hamden, Connecticut
- Talbot Trotter, Research Ecologist, Hamden, Connecticut
People
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Person
Nathan P. P. Havill, PhD
Research Entomologisthttps://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/nathan.p.havill -
Person
R. Talbot Trotter, III
Research Ecologisthttps://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/robert.t.trotter
Featured Science Resources
- S. Limbu, Melody Keena, M.C. Whitmore. 2018. Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Hemiptera: Adelgidae): A Non-Native Pest of Hemlocks in Eastern North America
- Nathan P. Havill, Michael Montgomery, Guoyue Yu, Shigehiko Shiyake, Adalgisa Caccone, Adalgisa Caccone. 2006. Mitochondrial DNA from Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) Suggests Cryptic Speciation and Pinpoints the Source of the Introduction to Eastern North America
- Laura L. Ingwell, Mailea Miller-Pierce, R. Talbot Trotter, III, Evan L. Preisser. 2012. Vegetation and invertebrate community response to eastern hemlock decline in southern new England
- R. Talbot Trotter, III. 2009. Hemlock canopy arthropods: biodiversity on a threatened host.
- Nicholas J. Russo, Chris S. Elphick, Nathan P. P. Havill, Morgan W. Tingley. 2019. Spring bird migration as a dispersal mechanism for the hemlock woolly adelgid
Environmental Education Resource
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Natural Inquirer - Woolly Bully
Last updated March 24, 2023