UMass Amherst is reporting that Extension entomologist Joe Elkinton now has evidence that the biocontrol for the invasive winter moth has finally taken hold in Massachusetts. For the past 6 years, Elkinton’s lab has been rearing and releasing a parasitic fly, Cyzenis albicans, that attacks the invasive winter moth (Operophtera brumata). Research shows that fly [...]
Want to help protect Massachusetts from the invasive emerald ash borer? Volunteer teams from Central and Eastern Massachusetts are needed to track the beetles, using a wasp that is an expert at finding them. Cerceris fumipennis, a native wasp species, is an expert at catching Agrilus beetles, including the Agrilus of greatest concern to us [...]
The latest issue of Pro Grow News, the Massachusetts Nursery and Landscape Association’s bimonthly magazine, features an article about the looming threat of emerald ash borer in Massachusetts. The article, “Emerald Ash Borer: A New Pest On Our Doorstep,” is written by the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources‘ State Plant Pest Survey Coordinator, Jennifer Forman [...]
The Mass. Department of Agricultural Resources has reproduced two of its most popular handouts for Asian longhorned beetle outreach in a Spanish language format. Our ALB Tree Guide and ALB Look-alikes sheets are now both available in Spanish:
To view the entire collection of ALB outreach materials, visit the Massachusetts ALB Cooperative Eradication Program’s Media [...]
The Asian longhorned beetle Cooperative Eradication Program will be holding a series of meetings this March in the Greater Worcester area to discuss plans to chemically treat trees in an effort to prevent the spread of the beetle.
Meetings are scheduled from 6pm-8pm on each of the following dates:
Monday, March 14: Worcester Technical High School, 1 [...]
Join us on November 13th at 10:00 am for an informative Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) “walk-and-talk” at Olmsted Park in Boston. This will be a walking workshop where you can learn how to identify ALB, ALB tree damage, and hear about the history of ALB in Massachusetts. At the same time we will also be [...]
Are you participating in an Audubon Christmas Bird Count next month? When you’re out looking for birds, keep your eyes on the trees – with the leaves gone, now is a perfect time of year to check them for Asian longhorned beetle damage. If you’re birding, you’ve likely got a good pair of binoculars with [...]
There have been a lot of reports in the news lately about stink bugs invading people’s homes and destroying crop (see here for example). The stinky insects featured in those stories are Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs (Halyomorpha halys), notorious for descending on people’s homes and sneaking inside by the hundreds.
Contrary to information in some of [...]
Join the Emerald Necklace Conservancy and the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources this Sunday, Sept. 19th for an Asian longhorned beetle tree survey at Jamaica Pond. In July of this year, a small infestation of ALB was discovered in maple trees growing at Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain. ALB Eradication program staff are in the [...]
Last month the Greater Worcester Land Trust hosted an Asian longhorned beetle (“ALB”) tree survey within Kinney Woods, part of over 100-acres of GWLT conservation land. The area is just 2.5 miles west of a known ALB infestation and is a gateway to many other important areas including Holden Reservoir, Cascades Park, and Boynton Park.
Before [...]
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