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It looked like a normal bee at first. Then a scientist realized she was seeing something lost for 119 years

In a research orchard in Syracuse, pollinator ecologist Molly Jacobson swept her net through the air just 10 feet from where ...

A lost icon: The American chestnut and its central place in the eastern landscape

The American chestnut is a singular, iconic tree of the eastern United States. It was majestic, supported animals that lived ...
Cincinnati

Saving the American Chestnut Tree

An invasive fungus has killed billions of American chestnut trees since the early 1900s. Forestry experts in southeastern Ohio may have found a solution. His branches ruffle in the light breeze under ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

UNH’s chestnut trees may not repopulate forests. But they’re still helping the effort.

At the Kingman Research Farm just outside of the University of New Hampshire campus, there’s an orchard of chestnut trees, growing under the watchful eyes of researchers. The American chestnut was a ...
Digital Journal

Pest On The Rampage – Leaf Miner Attacks Horse-Chestnut Foliage

FRANKFURT (dpa) ­- The horse chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella, a moth of unknown origin, is tiny, silent and inconspicuous and yet it leaves a trail of destruction in its wake. The moths ...