Emerald Ash Borer Research Paper

During the last decade, redbanded stink bug has emerged as a major stink bug pest species in Louisiana. The economic threat from redbanded stink bug is also rapidly increasing in the Mid-South and Southeastern region of the United States as it continues to expand its geographical range. Since redbanded stink bug is relatively new species in the existing sting bug complex, there is a lack of information about this pest compared to other stink bugs. One of the gaps in our present understanding is its potential spring hosts where its population can build up before migrating to soybean. Field observations have revealed that red banded stink bugs were present in high numbers on leguminous host like medic, clovers and vetch along rights-of-way, ditches

Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation organization budgeted for and planned a way to help save this tree species. For the past couple years, biannual Ash tree treatments have been in place to help save the Ash trees of Fort Wayne. This past summer 647 Ash trees in Fort Wayne were treated to prevent the Ash Borer from killing them. Because this treatment is a biannual treatment, only half of the population of Ash trees was treated the summer of 2013. The other half of the population was treated the previous summer and will be treated again in the summer of 2014. (City of Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation, 2013) Davey Resource group was the lowest bidder and took on the project of treating the Ash trees. “Davey Resource Group provides a full range of natural resource and utility consulting services to the commercial, residential, municipal and governmental markets.” (Davey)

The emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis, is a beetle that was first discovered in 2002 in the US near the Detroit area and southeastern portions of Michigan. This beetle is believed to have originated in Asia. The theory is that they arrived in the states in packing material made of wood on cargo ships traveling on the St. Lawrence River, which then leads into the Great Lakes. Since 2002, this beetle has made its way into parts of Canada and now in at least eighteen states in the US (Emerald, n.d.). They are causing major destruction of Ash trees in all of these areas, and Vermont is starting to take precautions to be prepared if and when these beetles show up in The Green Mountain

Emerald Ash Borers has killed millions of ash tree and put billions more at risk. Emerald Ash Borers originated in Asia and eastern Russia was first discovered in Canada in 2002. It is now widespread in Quebec and Ontario areas. Emerald Ash Borers can be spread to various parts of Canada and USA through infested firewood trading. Therefore the government of Canada has decided to restrict infested areas. Emerald Ash Borer arrived to Canada through trading forestry products. If we had been more careful, Emerald Ash Borers would have never entered Canada. Therefore our interaction in cutting down trees to trade and trading with others has an important effect on the welfare of our forests. The interaction of receiving wood from outside our country

Proper removal and disposal of the dead Ash Trees can help with eliminating the spread of the disease to other areas of the city and replanting a variety of trees in the affected Ash Tree areas can help with biodiversity of tree species in the city to prevent another spread from destroying many of our trees. With many different tree species, if there is another beetle or borer outbreak that affects a certain species of tree, It would not be as devastating to the entire tree population because it would only affect a select few trees throughout the

Observation: no bugs were found except small, black, gnats were all close to the ground.

The life cycle of the bronze birch borer is incredibly destructive because every step of it somehow involves damaging birch trees. Adult borers eat the leaves of the birch tree to prepare themselves for egg laying. When they're ready, they will lay their eggs in cracks in the bark. And once the eggs hatch, the larva burrows into the surface of the tree.

Laurel Wilt Disease is a scourge here in Florida. The disease affects laurel trees all over the Southeast, with the most notable victim being avocado trees. The beetles also effect sassafras trees, pond spice trees, and swamp bays. The main cause of this disease is a fungus known as Raffaelea Lauricola that is transmitted through a beetle called the red bay ambrosia beetle (Persea Borbonia). Neither of these species are native to the area. It was brought over to the states through wooden shipping containers that had contained the beetle insect. The insect and disease came from countries like India, Japan, Myanmar, and Taiwan. The disease works by having the beetle come into the country, hiding in the wooden crates. Once in America, the beetle enters into the environment and seeks trees to bore into for food and shelter. The beetles contain spores that containing the fungus that kills the host tree. The fungus then grows in the sapwood of the tree, restricting the flow of food, sap, and nutrients around the tree. This results in die back and eventually, a dead tree. The disease is known to highly effect the avocado industry and the natural forests in Florida. Currently, 61 out of 67 counties in Florida contain reports of Laurel Wilt Disease as of 2015. That is an enormous 91%.

Emerald ash borer probably arrived in the United States on solid wood packing material carried in cargo ships or airplanes originating in its native Asia. Emerald ash borer is also established in Windsor, Ontario, was found in Ohio in 2003, northern Indiana in 2004, northern Illinois and Maryland in 2006, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia in 2007, Wisconsin, Missouri and Virginia in the summer of 2008, Minnesota, New York, Kentucky in the spring of 2009, Iowa in the spring of 2010, Tennessee in the summer of 2010, Connecticut, Kansas, and Massachusetts in the summer of 2012, New Hampshire in the spring of 2013, North Carolina and Georgia in the summer of 2013, Colorado in the fall of 2013, New Jersey in the spring of 2014, Arkansas in the summer of 2014, and Louisiana in the winter of

The first link is the the USDA website. They have some information on the Asian Longhorned Beetle and about some of the areas that have been affected. You can also look up your states department of agriculture website or the department of natural resources to find different species of insects, animals, and plants that are invasive to your area! The second link is the website that I found most of my information from! The third link is just Ohio's department of natural resources, where you can see a list of all invasive

The Dendroctonus ponderosae (Mountain Pine Beetle) is estimated to have killed 46 million acres of trees from 2000 to 2012 - an area nearly the size of the state of Colorado, as stated in an article released by the Union of Concerned Scientists. In response to this epidemic, the U.S. Forest Service estimates that “as many as 100,000 beetle-killed trees fall to the ground every day in Southern Wyoming and Northern Colorado alone”. The results of the early 2000’s outbreak clearly reflect the devastation, but the reasons behind the infestation are not as defined. It 's commonly believed that the cause of the Mountain Pine Beetle outbreak was warmer temperatures that decreased winter larvae

Trees are dying all over the country from a mysterious disease that no one can even attempt to cure. It sounds like the trailer of a new horror movie, but it is happening daily due to the Emerald Ash Borer. The Emerald Ash Borer is spreading rapidly all over the country, and the government is attempting to destroy this invasive species. This dangerous beetle is not even native to the western hemisphere but eastern Asia. The United States has been trying to find new ways to exterminate the EAB to protect the Ash tree community.

After reviewing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife endangered species list (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2017) for species near my home, I had found an endangered known as the Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis). The Indiana bat is a medium-sized species of bat that has a close resemblance to that of the little brown bat. The Indiana bat is most commonly found around the great lakes region. In the summer time the Indiana bat can usually be found in a forested habitat. While in the winter they are known to hibernate as colonies in caves (Wildlife Department 2011).

These rice-sized beetles (see Figure 2) attack the tree’s thick bark and penetrate it resulting in resin flows that can kill beetles. Pine beetles, not engulfed by resin, convert the resin chemicals into aggregation pheromones that signal other beetles to a mass attack on the tree. In this manner, the tree’s defenses are penetrated and death can occur within a day. Cold winters would control the beetle population to limit the impacts to pine forests, and the resulting forest thinning would benefit the forest by allowing new tree growth to establish and flourish. Climate change effects have upset this natural

When an exotic pest enters an area and finds a suitable host tree, the lack of evolutionary resistance to the pest in that host tree, along with the lack of natural predators for the pest in that area, often creates a deadly combination (Foster et al. 2014). The hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA, Adeleges tsugae) is one such exotic pest that has had devastating consequences in eastern North America in recent years. HWA is a small adelgid native to Japan that was first found on ornamental Japanese hemlocks (Tsuga sieboldii) in Richmond, Virginia in 1951 (Ward et al. 2004). Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) is the most long-lived and shade-tolerant tree species in eastern North America, and it, along with its relic species of Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana) is currently being decimated by HWA, of which it has no natural defenses against (Ward et al. 2004).