KOUCHIBOUGUAC, N.B. – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the brown spruce longhorn beetle, an insect that kills spruce trees, has made its way to New Brunswick.
The agency says it was found near a campground in Kouchibouguac National Park, likely transported there on firewood.
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The find is nearly 165 kilometres away from the closest positive sighting in Westchester Station, N.S.
Nova Scotia has been dealing with the insect for a few years and has imposed a ban on moving any spruce products from within a one-kilometre radius of where the beetle has been found.
Its presence is of particular concern because the beetle kills healthy spruce trees, which are used heavily by the pulp and lumber industries.
Since its discovery in 1999 in Point Pleasant Park in Halifax, it has killed thousands of spruce trees in Nova Scotia.
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