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<\/a>EAB Diagram (from Dr. Frank Hale, Univ. of TN Extension Entomologist, Nashville)<\/p><\/div>\n
Recent\u00a0news about Emerald Ash Borer continues not to be good. Almost weekly, state officials report the spread of this pest in their state. Emerald ash borer (EAB) is an invasive metallic wood boring or flat-headed wood boring beetle that is killing all species of North American ash trees (Fraxinus spp<\/em>.). Since 2002, EAB has killed tens of millions of ash trees.<\/p>\nIn the botanical world, European olive (Olea europea<\/em>) and native fringe (Chionanthus virginicus<\/em>) trees are ash relatives.\u00a0White fringetree is native to the United States and grows wild from New Jersey south to Florida and west to Oklahoma and Texas. It is also a popular landscape\u00a0tree in other parts of the country. Some fringe trees in the Midwestern U.S.have been found EAB infested.<\/p>\nScientists at Wright University in Dayton, OH report the innate potential of EAB to use European olive trees as an alternate host\u00a0under laboratory conditions. In the field conditions, EAB has not been found in olive trees\u2014at least not in North America. Also,numbers of EAB\u00a0infested\u00a0fringetrees in the Midwest and Northeast are still low.<\/p>\n
Community readiness is the key.<\/strong> EAB continues to expand its range across the U.S. In preparation for the arrival of EAB, the location of newly infested ash trees is first\u00a0determined and the trees protected with\u00a0systemic insecticides. Bio-control efforts are ongoing, and parasites may be released in attempts to reduce numbers of emerald ash borers. Ash trees in poor health are quickly\u00a0removed and destroyed.<\/p>\nQuarantine procedures should be followed. In particular, potentially infested firewood should not be transported outside of quarantine areas.<\/p>\n
Information and Photo Credits:<\/strong> Louisiana State University Ag Center in Hammonds \u00a0and University of Tennessee Plant Diagnostic Lab in Nashville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recent\u00a0news about Emerald Ash Borer continues not to be good. Almost weekly, state officials report the spread of this pest in their state. Emerald ash borer (EAB) is an invasive metallic wood boring or flat-headed wood boring beetle that is killing all species of North American ash trees (Fraxinus spp.). Since 2002, EAB has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,1361,1377,9,5,816,1378,1030,606,843,601,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9987,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973\/revisions\/9987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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