Richard Buckley from the Plant Diagnostic Laboratory of Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, and a member of the LBI Garden Club, will discuss pine wilt disease at the March 9 Science Saturday. The presentation will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the main building of the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies.

Pine wilt is initiated by a nematode vectored to trees by a wood borer insect called the pine sawyer beetle and, as LBIF Membership and…