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WANTED: Your Bradford pear trees! Florence area property owners are invited to exchange up to five Bradford pear trees for an equal number (1:1 exchange) of FREE young, healthy, native replacement trees. WHY? Bradford pears are not native to the U.S. and have been widely

Feel free to tune in on Monday afternoon if you’d like to hear the story of how we dealt with this invasive stink bug. Spans 2 postdocs and 5 graduate students worth of research.

I was fortunate enough to take part in the Kentucky Forest Health Conference held at Kroger Field in Lexington. Nearly 300 people gathered to learn all about #foresthealth and #invasivespecies issues in the state. It was great to hang out with Ellen Crocker and Abe, too!

I’d love to do a podcast episode telling the stories of those in this field that have lost their jobs. If you or anyone want to share your story of the work you did and how your job ended, please DM me or email [email protected]

FOREST HEALTH WORKSHOP: Join Clemson Cooperative Extension and SCFC for an informative day of learning in the Pee Dee! WHEN: Friday, March 14 from 8:30am to 3:30pm WHERE: Pee Dee Research & Education Center 2200 Pocket Rd. Florence, SC 29506 TOPICS: Pesticide regulation

New work (led by Kristy McAndrew, collabs tagged!) examining an eruptive native herbivore, the baldcypress leafroller (Archips goyerana), in the southern U.S. (aren't baldcypress swamps cool?) shows they're more common than we thought... academic.oup.com/jee/advance-ar…

I’m on the market! 🎉 What do I do? -I develop research questions and applied biotechnology to understand and disrupt insect symbioses. -I coordinate international teams to tackle interdisciplinary global challenges. -I train mycologists, entomologists and insect pathologists.

Looking to add another Assistant Superintendent to our team! Prior Assistant accepted his own Superintendent position after spending 2 seasons with us.

Everyone's got their own hill they're willing to die on, I get it. But this is a really narrow-viewed, shortsighted one. Situations are different. People are different. Blanket characterizations of big groups of people never work. If the goal was engagement metrics, congrats tho.

Congrats to Alex Ratay for a great M.S. thesis defense last week! Lots of work went into this statewide survey for Xylella and its vectors, and she found some really interesting results. More to come!

Make sure to check out my latest interview with Dr. David Coyle where we talked southern pine beetle: sites.libsyn.com/416264/s4e10-s… North Central IPM Center Crop Protection Network USDA Forest Service Forestry Commission Society of American Foresters State Foresters UGA Entomology Entomological Society of America Ed Sikora UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology NC State Extension @NCstate

We’re excited to see you at this year’s SFHWC! It will be held at the Hyatt Regency Tulsa Downtown in Tulsa, OK from July 15-17, 2025. 🚨 We have hotel rooms reserved for the group until June 23, 2025, so make sure to get your rooms reserved by then! See you soon. 🌳

Find the Gaps. Fill the Map. It's Callery pear season, and we're asking YOU to help us document this #invasivespecies' whereabouts. We all know this plant is a scourge and #foresthealth threat, and knowing where it is is the first step in management. invasivepearwatch.org

FORESTRY COMMISSION ISSUING STATEWIDE RED FLAG FIRE ALERT The South Carolina Forestry Commission is issuing a statewide Red Flag Fire Alert, effective immediately until further notice. The Commission plans to reevaluate conditions Sunday. The alert is being issued to strongly

TABLE ROCK, PERSIMMON RIDGE FIRES DECLARED 100% CONTAINED Forestry Commission officials announced Tuesday the Table Rock Complex fires, which burned through 15,000-plus acres in Greenville and Pickens counties and part of North Carolina, have been fully contained. The

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“I would argue that the Emerald Ash Borer is the most invasive forest pest of this generation,” says Dr. David Coyle, Associate Professor of Forest Health and Invasive Species 🌲 postandcourier.com/spartanburg/ne…

Privet is one of the most common invasive plants in eastern North America, but fear not! There are several effective management options available! Hat tip to Rob Nelson for helping to make this awesome video. youtube.com/watch?v=cdZMCZ…

The hot, humid, dog days of summer means the #invasivespecies kudzu is in out and in all it's glory. Not familiar with this invasive weed? Wondering why we care about it? Curious as to how to get rid of it? This video might just help... youtube.com/watch?v=q0KjmB…

Oasis of Kudzu Like a lamp at night or a spring when it’s dry So the kudzu appears to the spore as it flies It’s tired and windswept and ready to rest, and Maybe eat some of the plant it loves best Phakopsora sighs as it settles on leaves After it’s ride on the blustery breeze