ABC 8 interviews Mech on spruce budworms
WMTW (ABC 8 in Portland) interviewed Angela Mech, assistant professor of forest entomology at the University of Maine, on what could happen to Maine forests if there is an outbreak of the spruce budworm. “Spruce Budworm is actually a native insect. It’s normally here all the time, but in very low densities, we can’t normally find it. But about every 40 years, it explodes,” said Mech, who is also the director of the UMaine Spruce Budworm Lab.