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#MDACF - #InvasiveInsects on the Horizon: #BoxTreeMoth and #SpottedLanternfly
February 25, 2026
"Two invasive insects are spreading in the United States. Neither is known to be established in Maine, although both are closing in around our borders. Please be aware of these insects and report any suspicious sightings to help our efforts to manage them.
Box Tree Moth
If you have #boxwood plantings, keep your eyes out for box tree moth. This invasive pest was first discovered in #NewYork in 2021 and has subsequently spread to at least 10 other states despite state and federal quarantines. It has also been confirmed in #NewBrunswick, Canada near the Maine border.
Boxwoods infested with box tree moth are characterized by leaf defoliation, the presence of silken threads, and girdling of twigs. A heavy infestation will lead to plant mortality.
Although adult moths are strong fliers, box tree moth mostly moves to new areas as eggs and overwintering caterpillars on boxwood plants. These life stages are easy to miss, so it's important to check your boxwoods carefully for signs of this new invasive insect. If you suspect you have box tree moth, immediately contact [email protected].
Spotted LanternflyThe spotted lanternfly (SLF) is a large planthopper that has been spreading around the eastern half of the United States since 2016, where it is now in 18 states. It is still not known to be established in Maine, although we periodically receive reports of adult lanternflies, generally observed at rest areas and in warehouses.
Originally from Asia, the spotted lanternfly "hitchhiked" to Pennsylvania as egg masses on stone tile imports. When the eggs hatched in the spring, the little planthopper nymphs found their way to some preferred host plants, like tree-of-heaven, maple, and grape. Planthoppers have straw-like mouthparts (stylets) that they insert into plants to suck out the juices. This type of feeding can severely weaken the plant and sometimes spread diseases. The spotted lanternfly sticks its stylet into the stem and bark of plants, extracting the sap and exuding honeydew," a sticky liquid that rains down on surfaces, promoting the growth of sooty mold.
The spotted lanternfly has caused plant mortality in states where its firmly established. Please familiarize yourself with the different life stages of this bug and report any sightings. Please send photos or collect the specimen and email us: [email protected]."
Source:
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/about/news/news.shtml?id=13343929
Box Tree Moth
(Cydalima perspectalis)Exotic Insect Pest Fact Sheet (via #CornellUniversity)
https://cals.cornell.edu/integrated-pest-management/outreach-education/fact-sheets/box-tree-moth
#SolarPunkSunday #SaveTheTrees #Forestry #Stewardship #CitizenScience #InvasiveSpecies #InvasiveSpeciesWeek
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#Google Fulfilled #ICE Subpoena Demanding #StudentJournalist’s #Bank and #CreditCard Numbers
#AmandlaThomasJohnson didn’t know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena until months later. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.
Jessica Washington. February 10 2026
Excerpt: "Amandla Thomas-Johnson had attended a protest targeting companies that supplied weapons to Israel at a #CornellUniversity job fair in 2024 for all of five minutes, but the action got him banned from campus. When President Donald Trump assumed office and issued a series of executive orders targeting students who protested in support of #Palestinians, Thomas-Johnson and his friend Momodou Taal went into hiding."Google informed Thomas-Johnson via a brief email in April that it had already shared his metadata with the Department of Homeland Security, as The Intercept previously reported. But the full extent of the information the agency sought — including usernames, addresses, itemized list of services, including any IP masking services, telephone or instrument numbers, subscriber numbers or identities, and credit card and bank account numbers — was not previously known.
" 'I’d already seen the subpoena request that Google and Meta had sent to Momodou [Taal], and I knew that he had gotten in touch with a lawyer and the lawyer successfully challenged that,' Thomas-Johnson said. 'I was quite surprised to see that I didn’t have that opportunity.'
"The subpoena provides no justification for why ICE is asking for this information, except that it’s required 'in connection with an investigation or inquiry relating to the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.' In the subpoena, ICE requests that Google not 'disclose the existence of this summons for indefinite period of time.'
Thomas-Johnson, who is British, believes that ICE requested that information to track and eventually detain him — but he had already fled to Geneva, Switzerland, and is now in Dakar, Senegal."The #ElectronicFrontierFoundation, which is representing Thomas-Johnson, and the #ACLU of Northern California sent a letter to Google, #Amazon, #Apple, #Discord, #Meta, #Microsoft, and #Reddit last week calling on tech companies to resist similar subpoenas in the future from #DHS without court intervention. The letter asks the companies to provide users with as much notice as possible before complying with a subpoena to give them the opportunity to fight it, and to resist gag orders that would prevent the #TechCompanies from informing targets that a subpoena was issued.
" 'Your promises to protect the privacy of users are being tested right now. As part of the federal government’s unprecedented campaign to target critics of its conduct and policies, agencies like DHS have repeatedly demanded access to the identities and information of people on your services,' the letter reads.
" 'Based on our own contact with targeted users, we are deeply concerned your companies are failing to challenge unlawful surveillance and defend user privacy and speech.' "
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/google-ice-subpoena-student-journalist/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/zEa6d
#ResistICE #ResistFascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #ICEOut #DefundICE #Orwellian #BigBrother #NineteenEightyFour #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #SilencingDissent #SilencingFreeSpeech #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity -
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5357619
Universities push back against Trump's cuts on #federalfunding
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I’m an alum, so… 🤬
#Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for #CornellUniversity & $790 Million for #NorthwesternUniversity
The funding pause amid *#CivilRights* investigations into both #universities sharply escalates the Trump admin’s campaign against elite #colleges.
#law #AntiIntellectualism #NaziState #ThoughtPolice #Censorship #WhiteWashing #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #education #Cornell
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/cornell-northwestern-university-funds-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=0C341DDC-17F7-403A-A100-B68F51396C05 -
RP2040 Boot Loader is a Worm - [Hunter Adams] has written a secondary bootloader for the RP2040 that uses an IR l... - https://hackaday.com/2024/03/17/rp2040-boot-loader-is-a-worm/ #cornelluniversity #virtualfencing #raspberrypi #hunteradams #bootloader #robotswarm #techhacks #rp2040 #worms
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RP2040 Boot Loader is a Worm - [Hunter Adams] has written a secondary bootloader for the RP2040 that uses an IR l... - https://hackaday.com/2024/03/17/rp2040-boot-loader-is-a-worm/ #cornelluniversity #virtualfencing #raspberrypi #hunteradams #bootloader #robotswarm #techhacks #rp2040 #worms
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RP2040 Boot Loader is a Worm - [Hunter Adams] has written a secondary bootloader for the RP2040 that uses an IR l... - https://hackaday.com/2024/03/17/rp2040-boot-loader-is-a-worm/ #cornelluniversity #virtualfencing #raspberrypi #hunteradams #bootloader #robotswarm #techhacks #rp2040 #worms
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RP2040 Boot Loader is a Worm - [Hunter Adams] has written a secondary bootloader for the RP2040 that uses an IR l... - https://hackaday.com/2024/03/17/rp2040-boot-loader-is-a-worm/ #cornelluniversity #virtualfencing #raspberrypi #hunteradams #bootloader #robotswarm #techhacks #rp2040 #worms
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RP2040 Boot Loader is a Worm - [Hunter Adams] has written a secondary bootloader for the RP2040 that uses an IR l... - https://hackaday.com/2024/03/17/rp2040-boot-loader-is-a-worm/ #cornelluniversity #virtualfencing #raspberrypi #hunteradams #bootloader #robotswarm #techhacks #rp2040 #worms
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Cornell Updates Their MCU Course for the RP2040 - The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University has made [... - https://hackaday.com/2023/03/10/cornell-updates-their-mcu-course-for-the-rp2040/ #cornelluniversity #microcontrollers #hunteradams #bruceland #ece4760 #lecture #rp2040
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Cornell Updates Their MCU Course for the RP2040 - The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University has made [... - https://hackaday.com/2023/03/10/cornell-updates-their-mcu-course-for-the-rp2040/ #cornelluniversity #microcontrollers #hunteradams #bruceland #ece4760 #lecture #rp2040
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Cornell Updates Their MCU Course for the RP2040 - The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University has made [... - https://hackaday.com/2023/03/10/cornell-updates-their-mcu-course-for-the-rp2040/ #cornelluniversity #microcontrollers #hunteradams #bruceland #ece4760 #lecture #rp2040
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Cornell Updates Their MCU Course for the RP2040 - The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University has made [... - https://hackaday.com/2023/03/10/cornell-updates-their-mcu-course-for-the-rp2040/ #cornelluniversity #microcontrollers #hunteradams #bruceland #ece4760 #lecture #rp2040
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Cornell Updates Their MCU Course for the RP2040 - The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University has made [... - https://hackaday.com/2023/03/10/cornell-updates-their-mcu-course-for-the-rp2040/ #cornelluniversity #microcontrollers #hunteradams #bruceland #ece4760 #lecture #rp2040
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Cornell Updates Their MCU Course for the RP2040
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/10/cornell-updates-their-mcu-course-for-the-rp2040/
#CornellUniversity #Microcontrollers #microcontrollers #hunteradams #bruceland #ece4760 #lecture #rp2040 -
Cornell Updates Their MCU Course for the RP2040
https://hackaday.com/2023/03/10/cornell-updates-their-mcu-course-for-the-rp2040/
#CornellUniversity #Microcontrollers #microcontrollers #hunteradams #bruceland #ece4760 #lecture #rp2040
