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The invasive insect threatening ash trees across the Midwest – and how to spot it

Something is quietly killing the Midwest’s ash trees. The culprit is small enough to fit on a fingernail, brilliant green in ...

How to Spot the Emerald Ash Borer Before It Kills Your Trees

American trees are under attack, and it’s by an enemy that’s hard to spot. A tiny invasive pest, considered one of the most destructive forest insects ever to invade the U.S., is spreading across the ...
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This insect has killed ash trees across the U.S., and it's in Tennessee

More than 271 million ash trees in Tennessee are at risk of being destroyed by emerald ash borers, an insect that arrived in Middle Tennessee in 2014, according to Nashville's Cheekwood Estate and ...
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Emerald Ash Borer pests emerging in Oregon at higher rates in May

This year, an invasive species specialist at the Oregon Department of Forestry found a matured ash borer in early May.
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Invasive, ash-tree killing insect now present in all Iowa counties

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The emerald ash borer has been found in all of Iowa's 99 counties. (Photo by Dr. James E. Zablotny/USDA) The emerald ash borer, a ...
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Is it an ash borer? How to tell these green bugs apart from their lookalikes

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The emerald ash borer is in Portland, and experts are calling on the city’s residents to protect their trees from the invasive beetle. But here’s the catch: A lot of bugs look ...
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Area cities plot next steps to combat tree-killing insect as it burrows down for winter

DILWORTH — After an ill-fated arrival last spring, the emerald ash borer is burrowing down for winter on the Minnesota side of the river. The invasive pest, native to Asia, was first discovered in ...

Oregon’s warm winter, spring have invasive tree-killing bugs hatching early, state says

The warm spring weather tends to get people out and about to enjoy the sun. Unfortunately, it’s not just the humans. The mild temperatures through the winter and now into spring have resulted in the ...
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Tree-killing insect now confirmed in all Iowa counties

EMMET COUNTY, Iowa (KTIV) - The Emerald Ash Borer insect has been confirmed all over Iowa. On Thursday, Oct. 17, the tree-killing insect was confirmed in all of Iowa’s 99 counties, according to a news ...
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New pests threaten Portland’s trees. They could make future heat waves even hotter

Two new pests in the Willamette Valley could decimate trees and worsen the ‘urban heat island’ effect that makes some neighborhoods hotter than others For years, Portland area politicians have ...
Sun Journal

Pest predictor i-Tree will help identify harmful nonnative insects

Angela Mech, assistant professor of Entomology at University of Maine, has been leading the research for the i-Tree pest predictor. Mech specializes in invasive forest insects. University of Maine ...