Land
Emerald Ash borer moving on to new target in Ohio
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Ohio scientists say they’ve found evidence that the insect has made its way to a new host: the white fringetree.
Wildlife
VIDEO: Biological control facility produces wasps for battle against emerald ash borer
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A biological control facility in Brighton, Mich. produces thousands of tiny, stingless wasps each week that will target invasive emerald ash borers.
Wildlife
Great Lakes researchers mobilize wasps to combat emerald ash borer
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Researchers are increasingly recruiting different wasp warriors in the battle against the emerald ash borer, a destructive, tree-eating beetle that has infiltrated the entire Great Lakes region.
Costly insecticides, tree-removal strategies and bans on moving firewood have provided some defense against the critter.
But a bug-on-bug battle strategy appears to hold promise.
Wildlife
MONDAY MASHUP: Emerald Ash Borer Viewer
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The Asian carp is making a splash in the Great Lakes, but the giant fish has nothing on the Emerald Ash Borer.
The invasive critter has infiltrated every Great Lakes state since its discovery in Michigan eight years ago.
Wildlife
Emerald Ash Borer found in La Grange
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(IL) Chicago Tribune – They’re metallic green, can fit on a penny and are now a threat to the thousands of ash trees in the Village of La Grange. According to Ryan Gillingham, La Grange’s director of public works, multiple adult Emerald Ash Borers were found in one of the six traps the village has maintained for detecting the beetle. More
Wildlife
Crews in St. Paul cut down trees infested with ash borers
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(MN) Minneapolis Star-Tribune – Chain saws and experts are converging in the Twin Cities in the fight against the emerald ash borer. In St. Paul, foresters identified eight more infested trees Tuesday as workers continued to remove dozens of others fatally damaged by the bug that, first found in St. Paul May 13, threatens the state’s 900 million ash trees. So far, 67 trees have been either taken down this week or targeted for removal in an effort officials hope will thwart the insect that has killed tens of millions of trees across the Midwest and southern Canada in the past seven years.