Re: [SG] Trees in the News
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- Subject: Re: [SG] Trees in the News
- From: G* S* <f*@YAHOO.COM>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 18:59:00 -0700
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:44:03 -0400
> From: "Michael D. Cook" <mikecook@PIPELINE.COM>
> Subject: Trees in the News
>
> As long as we're talking about trees, has anybody
> heard about the pest
> supposed to be invading maples? My husband told me
> about it today, but
> can't remember when or where he heard of it. I am
> hoping that it's just a
> hoax.
>
> The story goes that there is an insect, possibly a
> beetle, that lays its
> eggs on the bark of a maple tree (I don't know if it
> is said to prefer any
> particular species). The eggs hatch and larvae
> burrow into the trunk,
> leaving holes that expose the tree to disease and
> otherwise weaken it,
> eventually killing it. What I thought was strange
> was that supposedly trees
> were being deliberately destroyed by the acre around
> New York and other
> northeastern US areas, because destroying the
> infected tree kills the
> larvae, which feed from it only when it is
> living...this is strange because
> I would have expected to hear about it on one of my
> lists if such wholesale
> action was being taken. The insect is from China,
> and arrived here in a
> packing crate, according to the story. So, is any
> of this true, and if so,
> what other information does anyone have?
>
>
> Sheila Smith
> mikecook@pipeline.com
> Niles, MI USA, Z 5/6
>
Greetings from Champaign, IL
Asian Longhorned Beetle, Anolplophora glabripennis
(Cyrambycidae).
Check out these URL for details:
http://willow.ncfes.umn.edu/asianbeetle/beetle.htm
http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/longhorned_beetle/
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