In nature, you’ll see several types of spruce trees (Picea spp.) that are beautiful, rugged evergreens capable of lasting several centuries and withstanding extreme winter cold. They are amongst ...

“It’s a little moth, and in its infant stage, its larvae stage, it’s consuming all of the foliage on these balsam and spruce trees. And over about two years, the trees just defoliate and ...

It has natural predators and a whole forest of food supply primarily feasting on spruce and fir trees… which make up the majority of the Northern Maine forest. “Roughly every 35 to 40 years or ...