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Old 05-17-2010, 05:05 PM   #6
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Eureka, you hit it. It has been around now for 4 or 5 years but in different areas and for some reason has disappeared from areas that has been seen in. They say it can be very destructive. Let us prayer it isn't that fungus.
Actually, it's been stateside since the 20s, making landfall from the Orient in the PNW and slowly heading east. They had a bad blight of it in PA, akin to what emerald ash borer is doing to ash trees in IN, Mich., and elsewhere in the Midwest.

I seem to recall hearing that the wooley adelgid may have reached the northernmost extreme in S. New England. But sometimes my memories get twisted with strains of wishful thinking.
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