Over the past few weeks staff at the Mass. Dept. of Agricultural Resources, the Dept. of Conservation and Recreation, and volunteers have been scouting out Cerceris wasp colonies for the Wasp Watchers project, where we monitor non-stinging wasps that are experts at hunting the invasive emerald ash borer beetle. The project was recently featured in [...]
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 [...]
Damage from invasive insects like the Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) and Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is easiest to spot in winter and early spring, without leaves blocking our view into the upper canopy. But in winter, there are no leaves on the trees, so how do we identify host species? Check out our winter tree [...]
Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis, “EAB”) is an invasive, wood-boring beetle that has caused the loss of tens of millions of ash trees in North America, just within the past eight years. While it has not been found in New England, it has been found as close as New York and Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts and [...]
Those seeking to learn more about the emerald ash borer now have a great new resource available. “Emerald Ash Borer University” is a collaborative effort by the U.S. Forest Service, Michigan State University, Ohio State University and Purdue University. The website offers free webinars with topics from the latest research on EAB to the most [...]
The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis, “EAB”) has found for the first time in Western New York. The invasive, wood-boring beetle was discovered earlier this week when USDA employees noticed suspicious damage to ash trees off of a highway in the town of Randolph, located in Cattaraugus County. So far, about 30 trees have been [...]
The Massachusetts Introduced Pests Outreach Project is part of the Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS), a partnership between all 50 states and the USDA to detect and monitor exotic pests, pathogens and weeds. Each fall, the Massachusetts CAPS Committee, with members from the Mass. Department of Agricultural Resources, USDA APHIS-PPQ, UMass Extension, and non-governmental organizations [...]
Researchers from the USDA have added another tool to the arsenal against the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis, “EAB”). As reported in this article from E: The Environmental Magazine, three different wasp predators, all natural enemies of the EAB, are currently being reared and released into the wild to fight the tiny green invasive beetle. [...]
Over the past couple of weeks, there have been two new sightings of the emerald ash borer beetle (Agrilus planipennis, “EAB”) in the USA and Canada, including Quebec (a first for the province) and Mercer County, Pennsylvania (the fifth county in PA since the beetle was first found there in 2007).
The end of June is [...]
Asian Longhorned Beetle News