Join Winter Mapping Challenge for hemlock woolly adelgid

Sign of hemlock woolly adelgid. Photo courtesy Bruce Watt, University of Maine, Bugwood.org Winter is the best time to spot the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid, and you can help monitor them from Feb. 12 through March 12 in New York’s first statewide Winter Mapping Challenge. You could win a prize! The challenge is being hosted by NY iMapInvasives and the NYS Hemlock Initiative. To participate: Get outside, find some hemlock trees and check for white “fuzz balls” on the undersides of twigs– these…