Emerald Ash Borer Detected in New Hampshire
New Hampshire State Foresters news-events - 04/10/2013
Officials from the New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development (DRED) and Department of Agriculture, Markets & Food (DAMF) have confirmed that the emerald ash borer is now in New Hampshire. A suspect tree was spotted in Concord on March 28. Insect specimens from the tree were collected and sent to scientists at the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine (USDA APHIS PPQ), who have confirmed the insect’s identity.
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USDA APHIS Confirms Emerald Ash Borer in 3 New Connecticut towns
- 04/02/2013
The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES) and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) announced Tuesday that the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) has been detected in three new Connecticut towns – Cheshire, Oxford, and Middlebury – all located in New Haven County where the insect was previously found in July 2012.
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Shot Hole Borer Polyphagous & Fusarium sp.
University of California Riverside - 02/14/2013
Found in Los Angeles and Orange Counties in residentail neighborhoods. The Shot Hole Borer Polyphagous and fungus Fusarium sp. is especially harmful to avocado trees. However the beetle has a number of other hosts including ; Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia), California Sycamore (Platanus racemosa), box elder (Acer negundo), black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), Big leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum), Box elder (Acer negundo), Avocado (Persea americana), English oak (Quescus robur), Olive (Olea europaea), Peach (Prunus persica), Goldenrain (Koelreuteriae elegans), Mimosa (Albizia julibrissin), American Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) ,and more.
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Trees Living on the Edge
Science AAAS newaletter & Calif Urban Forest Newsletter - 02/04/2013
New research has shown that the more climate dries out—a predicted consequence of global change in many places—the more likely water transport systems of many trees are to fail. "We can expect more forest diebacks,New research has shown that the more climate dries out—a predicted consequence of global change in many places—the more likely water transport systems of many trees are to fail. "We can expect more forest diebacks,
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ALB Potential to Destroy Many Species of Trees
Cincinnati.com - 07/03/2012
Unchecked, ALB could finish off the American elm, as well as any other elm species (red, Siberian, lacebark,…). And ash trees (white (or American), green, blue,…). And maples (sugar, red, silver, Japanese, Norway, and other species and hybrids). Birch, poplar, buckeye, willow, mimosa, and sycamore species, among a few others are also threatened.
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