Pests & Invasive Species

The ground cover, “creeping Jenny,” is invasive and prohibited for sale in the state, but it still manages to overspread lawns, gardens, and natural areas.

A $17 billion settlement with the tech-giant META, good news from student surveys about mental health, and spotted lanternflies make their way to New Hampshire.

Invasive jumping worms are now found all over NH, and they destroy soil and change ecosystems.

Are ants helping or actively harming your garden and grass?

From organic pesticides to hand-picking each pest individually, it is a struggle to keep unwanted guests out of your garden.

At Millikan Nursery in Chichester, when they buy trees, shrubs and other nursery stock from places where the spotted lanternfly is established, they take the time to look for and remove the egg masses of the invasive species.

What a hornet wasp might use to sting a human, these wasps use to lay their eggs inside their host: the emerald ash borer.

Investigadores dicen que una avispa está ayudando a controlar una peste que afecta fresnos. Granite State College está ofreciendo matrícula gratis para algunas clases de educación temprana. Gobernador Sununu pide al gobierno federal una declaración de desastre.

Jumping worms were first reported in New Hampshire about five years ago, according to New Hampshire Forest Health.

Mid-Atlantic state officials are urging residents to help eradicate the invasive spotted lantern-fly before it devastates fruit crops. The pest has so far been prevented from spreading in New Hampshire, but state officials say it will likely return.