Colleen Teerling, an entomologist for the Maine Forest Service, attaches a saw blade to pole pruner during a browntail moth awareness event Saturday at the Gardiner Public Library.

One of the four pole pruners that can be checked out from the Gardiner Public Library. A demonstration on its use was offered Saturday by an entomologist with the Maine Forest Service.

Colleen Teerling, an entomologist for the Maine Forest Service, shows hemlock woolly adelgid during an event Saturday at the Gardiner Public Library.

Colleen Teerling, an entomologist for the Maine Forest Service, talks about browntail moth nests Saturday at the Gardiner Public Library. February is Browntail Moth Awareness Month in Maine.