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UMaine Research Works to Solve State’s Browntail Moth Outbreak
Dr. Angela Mech, an assistant professor of forest ecology, and her colleagues are conducting research on methods to reduce the population of the browntail moth. The browntail moth population in Maine has increased significantly in the past year and moved inland from the coast. The tiny hairs on the browntail moth in its caterpillar stage…