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Penn Lines Online provides an email link to Penn Lines editorial staff, information on advertising rates, and an archive of past issues. Member Of: CALL US! FOR A FREE ROOF INSPECTION | APRIL 2020 3 KEEPINGCURRENT News from across the Commonwealth Spotted lanternfly Huntingdon, Juniata, Luzerne, Mifflin, ery, Northampton, Philadelphia and quarantine expands Northumberland, Perry and York. Schuylkill. The quarantine designed to stop They were added to the list of counties For more information about the the movement of the invasive spotted previously listed in the quarantine spotted lanternfly and what items are lanternfly to new areas and slow its area: Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, regulated under the quarantine, go to spread within the quarantine areas was Dauphin, Delaware, Lancaster, Leb- extension.psu.edu/spotted-lanternfly expanded in early March to include an anon, Lehigh, Monroe, Montgom- or agriculture.pa.gov/spottedlanternfly. additional 12 counties across the state. Prior to the latest addition, the quar- State announces research antine area included 14 counties in the funding to combat CWD southeastern portion of the state. Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary The quarantine may be expanded at Russell Redding recently announced any time to new areas as detections of $1 million in grants has been awarded the invasive insect are confirmed. to three innovative research projects The counties recently added to the designed to help detect and better quarantine include Allegheny, Bea- understand chronic wasting disease ver, Blair, Columbia, Cumberland, (CWD) deer in order to stop its spread. “Scientists have made significant progress toward better understanding suggest that anyone who sees a spotted lanternfly egg mass should scrape it off the surface it is chronic wasting disease in isolating on and destroy the eggs. Reports indicate the genes associated with the disease,” destructive insect, first reported in the United Redding said. “These projects show potential to build on that progress by direct damages annually to vulnerable agricultural speeding diagnosis, helping scientists crops and $153 million in direct damages annually better understand how CWD progress- to the forestry industry in Pennsylvania. es and ultimately, learn how to keep it from spreading.” Funded projects are: k Exploration of the potential of working dogs to detect CWD in counties are added to the spotted deer feces, funded at $242,246, lanternfly quarantine area, effective University of Pennsylvania School in early March. of Veterinary Medicine. k Development and testing of live-an- imal tests to detect CWD, funded at $561,000, University of Pennsylva- nia School of Veterinary Medicine. k Development of live-animal tests to detect CWD, funded at $196,754, CWD Evolution, LLC. 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