Do you know of a site where ash trees have died recently? Or know a neighbor or forester that’s mentioned some ash decline? The NH Division of Forests and Lands Forest Health Office is conducting a unique survey designed to...
Learn to tell it apart from similar beetles Forest health experts fear that an exotic pest called the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB), which made its way into the U.S. in wooden packing crates from China more than a decade ago,...
They appear seemingly from nowhere, massing on walls or windows, buzzing around the room, landing on furniture, your arm, your computer monitor. Several species of insects invade homes in the fall and remain through the winter, often hidden inside...
Watch it! Living With Lyme: NH's Exploding Epidemic (July 11 WMUR Chronicle show in six segments; click on Chronicle in lower left sidebar to find remaining segments) Blacklegged ticks (formerly called deer ticks) are active now throughout much of...
"Beetle Blitz" will recruit and educate citizen monitors Forest health experts fear that an exotic pest called the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB), which made its way into the U.S. in wooden packing crates from China more than a decade...
Blacklegged ticks (formerly called deer ticks) are active now throughout much of New Hampshire. June is especially important, because the nymphs (immature forms) of blacklegged ticks are active, and they can transmit Lyme Disease more quickly than the adults. American...
As voters prepare to discuss town budget articles, UNH Cooperative Extension entomologist Dr. Alan Eaton has posted an updated 15-page paper on mosquito-borne diseases in New Hampshire, and the various options to manage the problem. If your town is...
Ghostly apparitions emerge from the morning fog. Many are old bedsheets and tablecloths draped over the vegetable garden's best tomato plant or still-green pumpkins. (Just another week without a frost is all I ask!) But the most impressive of...
A new report from the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (NHDHHS) notes that cases of Lyme Disease in the Granite State rose 43 percent last year, from 619 in 2006 to 892 in 2007. The highest...
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