Pear Thrips
Ten years ago tiny insects that few people had ever heard of caused a shocking amount of damage to sugar maples in Vermont and other parts of the Northeast. In May 1998, maple leaves were deformed, shrunken and laced with brown. Maples on about 500,000 acres in Vermont and over two million acres in the Northeast were affected.
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