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Beetle Battle Heats Up as Arbor Day Approaches
Worcester has started their next wave of measures to prevent the Asian Long Horned Beetle from infesting any more trees. It is starting to inject chemicals into healthy trees that will stop the beetle from laying eggs in the trees as well as basically killing off any would be larvae from becoming viable. We have […]
USDA Awards Worcester $4.5 million from Recovery Act
This past Wednesday the USDA issued a press release announcing $89 million for projects across the US, including Worcester. The $4.5 million will be used to plant trees around the Central Massachusetts areas that were affected by the Asian Longhorned Beetle infestation that has taken many trees in the Worcester area. The American Recovery and […]
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