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| Just got this email from the KS Extension Service:
Emerald Ash Borer 4 Miles East of Kansas Border "Friday July 20, The Missouri Department of Agriculture confirmed an Emerald Ash Borer sighting in Parkville, MO, four miles east of the Wyandotte County Kansas border. This sighting is the western most sighting for an exotic invasive first discovered in the greater Detroit, MI area in 2002. Since the confirmed Detroit infestation in 2002 the Borer has spread as far east as Connecticut, as far south as Tennessee and as far west as Kansas City." Looks like everyone will eventually have to experience the damage from this critter.
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- Posted by toronado3800 Z6 St. Louis (My Page) on Fri, Jul 27, 12 at 22:07
| That totally sucks. Thanks for the heads up though. To this point St Louis has avoided infestation but it is only a matter of time we know. Huge plans are underway to replace all the ash trees on the Arch grounds. Curious how EAB does in the more arid western plains. Hopefully not well. |
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- Posted by Dzitmoidonc 6 (My Page) on Sat, Jul 28, 12 at 8:08
| I hope the guy in VT who pooh-poohed the idea that one person hauling one infected tree cannot really impact the environment reads this. A few months ago he wrote about bringing a tree from California to VT. Somebody else wrote that he should be careful, and our friend from VT tore into him with a sarcastic tone. The EAB is one horrible nightmare. Started by one company unknowingly importing something from a country that is corrupt to the core with the phytosanitary certs. Exports to China have to be on softwood pallets, and they have their own inspectors to verify this. Imports from China also are supposedly free of pests, and they provide a cert. saying they are. The certs, as anybody who imports from them know, are hastily printed for a fee. Misspellings are common, they will claim to be softwood but you can't drive a nail into them with a sledge, etc. Just my 2cents before I drink my coffee. |
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| OK, I just don't quite get the panic anymore. When it first hit here, in Plymouth/Canton Michigan, about 20 miles from my house, it WAS devastating. But, there was NO treatment then. Current treatments like imadicloprid and dinetofuran (Safari) give excellent protection. There are thousands of individual trees in landscapes here that are fine because they managed to survive long enough for these products to come to the market. Yes, the EAB will decimate wild populations and untreated cultivated trees. But there isn't any real reason why someone's yard trees need to die. Cost is the only major drawback, but still cheaper, IMHO, than tree removal in the long run. |
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- Posted by Dzitmoidonc 6 (My Page) on Sat, Jul 28, 12 at 9:16
| Wild Ash is an important commercial tree. If you work at a plant that makes hoe handles or baseball bats, you would likely use the word if the EAB is detected in your area. It is good that there are chemical treatments, but the financial cost and the cost to the environment is incalculable. Here's how we see it in PA. http://www.toledoblade.com/Nation/2012/04/29/Destructive-insect-could- wipe-out-ash-wood-for-bats.html |
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- Posted by wisconsitom 4/5 WI (My Page) on Sat, Jul 28, 12 at 11:02
| Exactly, Dz^. The effect on landscape trees is trivial indeed compared to what is happening in the wild. Ash are everywhere around here, in ditches and woodlots, and in the large contiguous forests of the north too. The scale of change from this is almost impossible to imagine. +oM |
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