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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Dear Forest Pest Mavens,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">I hope 2018 will be a better year for the conservation of species and their habitats – although it is hard to imagine how!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Those of you in the Washington DC area have a 3-week opportunity to enjoy a fun exhibit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An exhibit place at the National Zoo called “SPACE4” is hosting a show about <span style="font-size: 18pt;">INVASIVE INSECTS</span> (!) by local artist Maggie Gourlay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The show is titled “Adaptation / Migration in the Anthropocene”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Ms. Gourlay prepared oversized pencil drawing illustrations of 12 invasive insects – including EAB, ALB, European gypsy moth, pine shoot beetle, brown marmorated stink bug, fire ant, Mediterranean fruit fly, Formosan termite, and citrus psyllid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Visitors can use stamps of some of the illustrations – including EAB & ALB - to make prints that they can take home.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Adding to the fun, the exhibit space is a shipping container! And Ms. Gorlay incorporated wood packaging material into the installation – reportedly as planters holding 2 invasive plant species.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">The show closes on 1 January – so go soon!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">The show is described in an article from the Washington Post, which is available here:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-washington-post/20171208/282707637398692">https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-washington-post/20171208/282707637398692</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">I will try to find out what inspired the show and whether it will be visible at other locations in 2018.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Again, best wishes for 2018.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Faith Campbell</p>
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