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Brownie the Outlaw: Browntail Moth Research in Maine

Page Farm and Home Museum 12 Portage Road, Orono

The Randy Alford Memorial Presentation "Brownie the Outlaw" was the title Dr. Edith Marion Patch gave more than a century ago to her story about the Browntail Moth caterpillar whose voracious appetite and toxic hairs were plaguing Maine residents at the time.  The insect has made a reappearance in Maine and seems to be working […]

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