CHATSWORTH, Ga. — It's a tiny bug, barely visible to the naked eye, but the hemlock wooly adelgid is causing big problems. The U.S. National Park Service reports it has killed around 80 percent ...

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ATHENS, Ga. - Like a bloodsucking mosquito, the hemlock woolly adelgid plunges its needle-like mouth deep into the branches of hemlock trees and slowly sucks out the nutrients.

Problem and hope: In 2002 the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid arrived in Georgia along the Chattooga River, and now it is fast spreading through both the Etowah and Chestatee watersheds. (Infested Lumpkin ...

A parasitic bug -- the hemlock woolly adelgid -- that kills hemlock trees has marched its way to the eastern edge of the Cohutta Wilderness Area in Murray County, Ga., and forestry experts want to ...

Athens, Ga. - For the first time, University of Georgia researchers have successfully cryogenically frozen germplasm from hemlock trees being wiped out across the eastern U.S. by an invasive ...

Georgia has more then 210 “native tree” species, ... Others grow only in certain areas, such as the live oak (the state tree) in the Coastal Plain and the Eastern hemlock in the mountains.

Canopies thin with needle and shoot dieback and the tree eventually dies within 4 to 10 years. Additional stress from other pests, poor growing conditions and drought can hasten the death rate.

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The state's timber industry welcomed calls Wednesday by U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer that the federal government do more to help New York fight an invasive insect threatening to devastate its abundant ...