As the adult Laricobius beetles become harder to find with the season advancing towards summer, HRI’s beetle monitoring teams are finding more and more Laricobius larvae. The larvae of these beneficial predator beetles have hatched out of their eggs laid…

In addition to getting questions about how to treat hemlock trees for hemlock woolly adelgid, we are frequently asked how best to plant or transplant young hemlocks. Therefore, this January, HRI reached out to western North Carolina nursery owners asking…

Last fall we were surprised and delighted to be joined in the field by both of our former forestry technicians from the 2017-2018 season (which, by the way, was the first year HRI was able to hire dedicated techs to…