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Started by Ron Scott, November 23, 2008, 09:13:50 AM

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Ron Scott

[ http://pest.ceris.purdue.edu/searchpest.php?selectName=INALQCA]

On August 5, 2008, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed the identification of Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) in Worcester County, Massachusetts. This is the first detection of ALB in the State of Massachusetts.   

On August 1, 2008, a citizen reported seeing and collecting ALB at her home in Worcester. The following day, APHIS' State Plant Health Director (SPHD) in Massachusetts visited the site with the Massachusetts State Survey Coordinator where they found several infested trees and collected specimens. The specimens were positively confirmed as ALB by the Agricultural Research Services' Systematic Entomology Laboratory.

APHIS officials are coordinating with U.S. Forest Service, State, and local officials to assess the infestation, initiate regulatory activities, and determine the initial response.

ALB is a destructive wood-boring pest of maple and other hardwoods. This pest was first discovered in the United States in Brooklyn, New York, in August 1996. ALB was later detected in Chicago, Illinois, in July 1998. In October 2002, the beetle was found in Hudson County, New Jersey, and then in Middlesex and Union Counties, New Jersey, in August 2004. After four years of negative surveys, ALB was recently declared eradicated in Chicago, Illinois, and Hudson County, New Jersey.

On August 1, 2008, an adult ALB was detected in the city of Deerfield, Illinois, by an alert citizen. The site of the detection is approximately 12 miles north of the northern boundary of the previously regulated area of Chicago. No infested trees have been identified to date in association with the Deerfield detection.

Under IPPC Standards, Anoplophora glabripennis is considered a pest that is present, only in some areas and under eradication in the United States

Contacts: Christine Markham, APHIS' National ALB Program Director, (919) 855-7328 or Julie Twardowski, APHIS' National ALB Program Coordinator, (301) 734-5332

~Ron

WAP Man

this thing reared it's ugly head in NOva Scotia a couple of years ago. It has created quite a problem with regards to the harvesting and movement of round wood ( spruce only ) within the province destined to various mills. Since over 1/2 the forested land in this province is in the hands of small private woodlot owners , restrictions can be placed on the harvesting of the spruce ( fir & pine & hardwood are excempt)on these lots if the bug is found. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency ( Federal Agency) can quantine all land within 1 kilometer of the find. They actually have traps sets throughout the Atlantic Canada.

The reason that is given is that it's a non-native insect and since our major lumber exports are to the US, the quantine is necessary to prevent it's movement to the US. Now that it's been found in the US , it'll be interesting to see if the current quantine practices by the CFIA will be altered .

Hopefully your federal agencies will not resort to similar "knee jerk" solutions we are witnessing here  :-X

WAP Man

Ron - What we have here is the Long horned version ( softwood)  , my son just informed me a the Asian Longhorned is a hardwood nusiance ...

Young wipper snapper got the ole man on that one !!  I think he'll be a dandy Forester when he graduates .
We're of to the woods tomorow cutting firewood together ..
Merry Christmas

Ron Scott

Asian Longhorned Beetle Called Threat to New Hampshire Forests

August 26 – Seacoast Online reported that State officials warned that a beetle which has recently infested a Massachusetts city could devastate New Hampshire hardwood forests if it comes to the state, and they urged residents to keep their eyes open for the Asian longhorned beetle.

To read more, visit the Seacoast Online website.

E-Forester
~Ron

estiers

There was a new find of this in the Boston area http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100706tree-killing_asian_beetles_found_in_jamaica_plain/srvc=home&position=recent.

For those of you that might be impacted by this, there is a public meeting scheduled for Tuesday July 13, 2010.
Erin Stiers
State Plant Health Director - Minnesota
United States Department of Agriculture

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