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Province prepares for a beetle attack


Province prepares for a beetle attack
The brown spruce longhorn beetle has ravaged trees in Halifax’s Point Pleasant Park and now neighbouring New Brunswick is setting traps to prevent the beetle from migrating to their forests. New Brunswick’s Natural Resources Department has set 100 special insect traps in order to ward off any invasion of the species. The beetle has not yet been seen in New Brunswick but officials remain concerned about the danger to the province’s trees.
30 JUNE 2000
The Globe and Mail
30 JUNE 2000

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