The Cambridge Civic Journal reports that emerald ash borers have shown up in Cambridge. The bugs munch away at ash trees, killing them within one to three years and leaving behind brittle husks with branches that can fall on people below.
In preparation for the bugs, the city has been injecting ash trees for the past three years with a product, derived from the seeds of another type of tree. Cambridge has been on alert since 2014, when one of the bugs was found in a trap at the Arnold Arboretum just across the river.
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Horrid!
By Stevil
Fri, 08/24/2018 - 2:09pm
The "anti-adorable"
#elmer
Bug
By Charles Bahne
Fri, 08/24/2018 - 7:25pm
The "Read more" link doesn't work, it says I'm trying to do something I don't have permission to do.
Fixed
By adamg
Fri, 08/24/2018 - 7:59pm
Sorry about the bug bug.
Team Lorax
By Delle Ave Kid
Sat, 08/25/2018 - 9:10am
Landscaper and gardener by trade... this is dreadful news.
Hopefully, with luck, the inoculant program works.
Anyone with ash trees on their property, on their streets, or in their yards, please keep a watchful eye. Pass these links on to help speak for the trees:
Not sure what an ash looks like?*
Guide to identifying ash trees
All about emerald ash borers and how to tell symptoms & signs apart from other insects and diseases
EAB identification and information
oops.
*correction: I derped and typed elms where I meant ash and I'm sorry for the confusion. Dutch Elm disease was on my mind as I was reading the article.
ash or elm?
By Vicki
Sat, 08/25/2018 - 7:57am
Should I be checking on the few elms in my part of Somerville?
sorry!
By Delle Ave Kid
Sat, 08/25/2018 - 9:12am
Ash. I shouldn't post when insufficiently caffeinated, thank you for catching that!
No joke
By mrotown
Sat, 08/25/2018 - 10:14am
Madison, WI is currently plagued by these. Every street in the city has a stump or a recently ground stump from where a tree had to be cut down. Such a bummer.
Just bad news
By dmcboston
Sat, 08/25/2018 - 12:02pm
"Landscaper and gardener by trade... this is dreadful news.
Hopefully, with luck, the inoculant program works."
It is bad news. They found one in Rhode Island.
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/resources/pests-d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_ash_borer
There's no real cure to the problem. They're in about thirty states. Winters aren't cold enough, summers aren't hot enough and there are no natural enemies.
Don't move firewood. Don't move ash trees. It's illegal to import firewood into Maine. I believe this applies to other states as well.
There is a term for this
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 08/25/2018 - 6:54pm
Actually, summers are getting quite a bit hotter: http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/08/23/massachusetts-...