Earlier this month, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reported the hemlock woolly adelgid was detected at a property in Bedford, the first detection of the insect in the Halifax Regional Municipality.
Efforts to protect centuries-old eastern hemlock trees from an invasive insect are expanding in Nova Scotia after a volunteer group found success in the Tobeatic Wilderness Area.
A group of volunteers in southern Nova Scotia has been working to save a rare stand of centuries-old eastern hemlock trees from a potentially devastating invasive insect. They are injecting individual trees with insecticide.