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A long winding road, once frequented by coal trucks, leads to the top of what used to be a mountain. At its end are flat fields filled with budding apple trees.
EPA’s senior agriculture advisor visits Fruit Tree Research Station with growers
U.S. Department of Ag research entomologist Tracy Leskey presented a lecture recently about the spotted lanternfly and natural predators, parasites.
Tracy Leskey remembers when the brown marmorated stink bug became “explosively invasive” in the early 2010s. “We had significant crop losses, some homeowners had thousands trying to overwinter in their houses,” said Leskey, a research entomologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Appalachian Fruit Research Station in West Virginia. Leskey
I HEARD THE CHILDREN SCREAMING before I saw them, jumping up and down and laughing while running on the glittering sidewalk in Brooklyn. “Kill them! Kill