The eastern spruce budworm is a native insect that munches on balsam fir, leaving some 1,100 square miles of trees defoliated or dead last year, the most in the region since 1961. A spruce budworm ...

After they hatch, spruce budworms larvae can defoliate mature trees like balsam fir and spruce until they are killed. Humans’ work to suppress fires may have also exacerbated the budworms ...

He says the area is full of a lot of heavy, dead trees that have been killed off by an infestation of the spruce budworm, a native caterpillar, turning more than a million balsam fir trees into ...

The pest has killed more than a million balsam fir trees over the past four years, turning them into giant matchsticks. “And when you’ve got critical fire weather days and the opportunity for higher ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Fire crews put out a tree fire Thursday morning in Laurelhurst Park. Crews managed to keep the fire contained to one fir tree. At this point, Portland Fire & Rescue ...