Gizmodo: 10 Bugs Scientists Want You to Squash Immediately https://gizmodo.com/worst-invasive-bug-species-united-states-1848423715?utm_source=regular #agriculturalpestinsects #brownmarmoratedstinkbug #spottedlanternfly #euglandinarosea #invasivespecies #emeraldashborer #rosywolfsnail #pentatomidae #khaprabeetle #environment #ashborer #stinkbug #insect #brown

trailside stump
an emerald ash borer’s
whole journey
http://woodrat.vianegativa.us/2023/08/14/trailside-stump/
#haiku #haiga #shahail #emeraldashborer #arborglyphs

New on Entomology Today: One of the best tools to detect emerald ash borer is a wasp that specializes in catching beetles. A new study compares the wasps' mix of prey with the mix of trees in nearby forests to estimate the wasp's foraging range—and thus determine where emerald ash borer may be present when the wasps are found with it. #entomology #insects #wasps #EmeraldAshBorer #CitizenScience https://entomologytoday.org/2023/06/08/how-a-wasp-and-geographic-data-are-improving-surveillance-for-the-emerald-ash-borer/

Great paper on wood #DecayFungi associated with galleries of the #EmeraldAshBorer #EAB by Simeto et al. Cool data on aggressive white-rot fungi on attacked ash trees.
https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/3/576

Huge canes of #invasive #blackberry growing in the trunk of a decrepit Oregon ash. It got this bad because the decades-old, impenetrable #bramble was finally brushhogged last summer.

All cleaned up now. The #EmeraldAshBorer was found in Oregon last year, so who knows what is in store for the ash trees.

#thicktrunktuesday #pnw #pnwrestore

The tree removal company arrived today to remove the dead ash trees from our property. The ash trees killed by emerald ash borer (EAB).

Twenty ash trees were removed.

Twenty trees that provided shelter for birds and small mammals, shade, water filtratrion, soil stabilization.

Yes, I am sad. I am angry!

I watched those trees grow from saplings. I nutured them. From the parent tree.

Now they are just debris in our yard. Even the parent.

#SouthStPaul #Minnesota #AshTree #EAB #EmeraldAshBorer

Traditions are falling from our worlds like leaves from a dying #ash #tree. Beautiful @nytimes piece by Thomas J. Campanella on the shuttering of a #NewEngland #basket company, their stock destroyed by #emeraldashborer. And who is learning the careful art of basket making these days? #MacDowellArt @news.twtr.plus httpster@indieweb.social://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/opinion/basket-ash-insect.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Emerald Ash Borer
Emerald ash borer has killed all of my ash trees.
https://mcgerik.com/homestead/2022/11/28/emerald-ash-borer/
#Insects #InvasiveSpecies #Trees #EmeraldAshBorer #Minnesota #MNastodon

@YasmineHamid I wish you luck. The one in front of my house is costing about £100/year for treatment, and it won’t survive. #EmeraldAshBorer