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KANE — The Roach-Bauer Forestry Forum (R-BFF), which takes place on October 13, announced that Thursday, September 29, is the last date to register fo...

MONGAHELA — In Washington County Wednesday, Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding was joined by Penn State Extension Area Master Gardener Coordinator ...

MONONGAHELA — State officials on Wednesday discussed the threat that the spotted lanternfly poses and shared information and resources to help Pennsyl...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture plans to expand the state’s spotted lanternfly quarantine area to include 11 more counti...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A newly identified mite may be a biological control on the invasive tree-of-heaven, a favorite host tree for spotted lanternflies. ...

Pennsylvania is a state often associated with industry. Steel and glass. Coal and gas. But the Keystone State is just as famous for its nature. The U....

Although many homeowners have reported a greatly diminished population of the spotted lanternfly around their properties, the invaders from Asia known...

HARRISBURG — Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding on Wednesday encouraged business travelers to join more than 1.2 million people at 26,000-plus comp...

Cameron County has been added to Pennsylvania’s spotted lanternfly quarantine zone. The county was one of eight added to the list this year, Agricultu...

The invasive spotted lanternfly has been found in Pennsylvania and 8 other northeastern states since its discovery in 2014. As of May 2020, there are ...

UNIVERSITY PARK — As the spotted lanternfly extension associate in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, Heather Leach often receives calls a...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Like the spotted lanternfly that has a penchant for it, the rapidly growing Ailanthus altissima tree — better known as tree of heave...

UNIVERSITY PARK — An early spring brings warmth, daffodils and outside play. It also signals — to the chagrin of many property owners across Pennsylva...

UNIVERSITY PARK — For residents of southeastern Pennsylvania, winter provides a brief respite from the spotted lanternfly, an insect invader that has ...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — The state Department of Agriculture hit a milestone the first week of December: It handed out more than 1 million spotted lanternfly...

UNIVERSITY PARK — A $7.3 million grant awarded to Penn State will support an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional team of researchers as they conduc...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Identifying potential spotted lanternfly stomping grounds beyond Pennsylvania’s current 14-county quarantine zone is the focus of a ...

HARRISBURG – Working to protect the state’s food supply and the agriculture industry, Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, chairman of the House Agricul...

STATE COLLEGE — There is nothing quite like the splendor of a live Christmas tree to bring the beauty and amazing scents of the outdoors into homes fo...

PESTS : Tree of Heaven. It sounds nice, doesn’t it? However, the Center for Private Forests at Penn State tells us that it is not. It’s a fast growing...