Maine moving forward with budworm control, but funding delay will limit spray area

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • March 31, 2025

Maine will move forward with an effort to control spruce budworm infestations near the Canadian border, but the failure to get emergency state funding will limit the acreage that can be sprayed with insecticide this spring. The state has enough money to spray about 85% of the land on the verge of a spruce budworm outbreak.