by Web Editor | Jul 24, 2017 | News, News/PR
Scientists have been studying emerald ash borers since the Chinese insects started killing ash trees near Detroit 15 years ago. They’ve been following the imported insects’ march east, then north and now west and watching the bugs kill nearly every ash...
by Web Editor | Jul 8, 2016 | News, News/PR
The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) has been sighted and confirmed in two additional states – Texas and Nebraska – bringing the number of infiltrated states to 26. The beetle was also found outside of quarantine zones in Ontario last week. EAB threatens all North...
by Web Editor | Feb 19, 2016 | News, News/PR
Millions of acres of Colorado’s native forestlands have been impacted by bark beetles in the past two decades, and now an exotic tree pest – the emerald ash borer (EAB) – is threatening the state’s planted urban forests. The potential economic impacts of EAB in the...
by Web Editor | Oct 8, 2014 | News, News/PR
A female beetle decoy may soon rid the United States of the destructive emerald ash borer. An international team of researchers has developed a decoy female ash borer that attracts, then electrocutes the male beetles as they land on it to mate. The results of the...
by Web Editor | Feb 25, 2013 | News, News/PR
As the emerald ash borer ravages North American ash trees, threatening the trees’ very survival, a team of entomologists and engineers may have found a way to prevent the spread of the pests. Emerald ash borers (EABs), a type of beetle native to Asia, first...