New research from the University of Utah shows where the balsam wooly adelgid has spread across the Utah. The tiny insect is an invasive species and slowly kills fir trees. The new research shows how climate change could expand the insects' range and impact Wasatch forests.
A small, invasive insect that can only travel via wind or by latching onto birds and other animals is setting up shop within Utah s long-stressed conifer forests and wrecking havoc on some portions of the state s subalpine fir population.
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