A mammoth woolly problem: dealing with an invasive insect on an ecologically foundational evergreen – the hemlock

Join us at noon for this brown bag lunch talk at the Bent Creek Training Center. Please register to attend. Space is limited to 50 participants.

USDA Forest Service research entomologist Bud Mayfield will provide an overview of the hemlock woolly adelgid, including its invasion history, impacts, and efforts to minimize its negative effects on eastern hemlock and Carolina hemlock ecosystems. This tiny insect invaded eastern North America more than 70 years ago and has become one of the most damaging forest pests of the century. 

Mayfield is a research entomologist with the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, and a member of the Insects, Diseases and Invasive Plants work unit. He is a graduate of Yale University, West Virginia University and the State University of New York, and spent seven years as the forest entomologist for the Florida Division of Forestry before starting with the Forest Service in 2010.  His research focuses on the biology and integrated management of non-native invasive insects, including applications of silviculture and biological control.

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