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This week Texas Wildlife biologist, Sam Kieschnick, was reviewing pictures posted on iNaturalist, when a beetle from Tarrant County caught his eye. Submitted last summer by 10-year-old naturalist, Sam Hunt, the picture appears to show an emerald ash borer found in Tarrant County, just north ...
Spread and dispersal of emerald ash borer: a dendrochronological approach, p. 10. In V. Mastro, R. Reardon, and G. Parra [compilers], Proceedings of the Emerald Ash Borer Research and Technology Development Meeting, 26–27 September 2005. Pittsburg, PA. FHTET-2005-16. U.S. Dep. Agric....
Woodpeckers feed on emerald ash borer larvae living under the bark of ash trees. You may notice an increased level of woodpecker activity, particularly higher in the tree where these pests attack first. Woodpecker damage may look like strips of bark peeled from the tree, called “flecking.” 2...
The Morton Arboretum is now in the same boat as so many with Ash trees: Foresters report the Emerald Ash Borer has arrived at the 1,700 acre nature preserve west of Chicago.
Dr. Bergan also advises being alert for potential infestations by looking for small, D-shaped holes in the bark of ash trees where adult emerald ash borers may have exited. “Trees getting a lot of attention from woodpeckers are another sign,” he adds. “Emerald ash borer larvae are a fa...
European ash is threatened by two invasive species, the fungus which causes ash dieback and a beetle, the emerald ash borer (EAB). Saplings of European ash are much less susceptible to EAB than black ash, which has suffered severe damage in North America, but have similar resistance to ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) —The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is preparing to hang thousands of traps across Minnesota in the hunt for emerald ash borer. State workers will begin the job in the coming week. Around 6,500 purple traps will be placed throughout the state, about 2,000 more...
Since the discovery of the emerald ash borer in 2002, eradication efforts have been implemented in an attempt to eliminate or contain the spread of this invasive beetle. The eradication protocol called for the removal of every ash tree within a 0.8km radius around an infested tree. In 2005 ...
The emerald ash borer (EAB) is an exotic forest pest that has killed millions of ash trees in the United States and Canada, resulting in an ecological disaster and billions of dollars in economic losses of urban landscape and forest trees. The beetle was first detected in Michigan in 2002 ...