The Invasive Species Network (ISN) is hosting a training this month to instruct landowners and community members on how to survey and treat invasive hemlock woolly adelgid.
Free to all community members, the event, is scheduled from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Mills Community house in Benzonia.
Many residents of the Lake Michigan’s coastline are familiar with hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) after the past six years of frequent outreach conducted by the State of Michigan and their partners. HWA is a small, aphidlike insect that is almost invisible to the naked eye. As they situate themselves at the base of hemlock needles and feed off the tree’s nutrient supply, eventually causing mortality of the tree. The effect on landscapes can be ecologically significant, as exemplifi ed in the Appalachian forests where HWA was first detected in the United States.
