SPARTANBURG — For the eastern and Carolina hemlock, the prognosis was once dire. “I think 15 years ago, it was not clear that we would be able to save them,” said David Jenkins, a forest health ...

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For more than 20 years, conservationists have been fighting a tiny insect killing the region's hemlock trees. Efforts to protect the trees through insecticide and the deployment of natural predators ...

The hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) is an invasive sap-sucking insect that has precipitated widespread mortality of eastern and Carolina hemlock (Tsuga canadensis and Tsuga caroliniana) across ...