EAB Spread Rate

[svk]

Just curios if EAB has a known spread rate I.E x miles per summer?

It's now been confirmed 100 miles south of me and needs to cross a major water body before it can continue north. I'm aware logging equipment, firewood hauling etc can greatly speed this up.

 

[cantoo]

I don't know about your situation there but up/ over whatever I am from you we are just starting to get to the bad stage. Lots of trees here have it and are dying, we are quarantined here but 1 mile north of me is not. People go back and forth all the time with wood, nobody I know of has ever been stopped or even asked about the wood. Commercial haulers might get checked though. Provincial campgrounds won't let you bring wood it but that's mostly because they make money off the sales. I'm working about 100 miles south of where I live right now and the local farmers there are just going in and dropping the dead trees, some guys are pushing them up to burn others are just letting them rot. Around here the price of ash logs for firewood is still the same as 5 years ago, even though lots of trees are dying and going to be going to waste soon. There is a 10 acre bush across the road from me and it's pretty much all ash, it's been marked but no one wants to pay for the logs because access is a pain. I would bet that the farmer would let someone clear cut it for free just so he could crop the land. I just got permission to take what I want from 50 acres right being my house so I'm going to be good for awhile. Good luck and cut it before it goes to waste if you can.

 

[sachsmo]

Wow,

it's spreading fast. Hear tell the bug came in at Detroit or Toledo.

All the Ash around here are long gone with most shedding their bark.

Standing dead= perfect firewood on the hoof.

 

[windthrown]

They have banned firewood importing from outside the PNW in Oregon to try to stop EAB from getting here. Dunno if it will work tho.

 

[sachsmo]

They tried that here.

Don't think it's working since it has spread to New York, Pennsylvania, all the way to Minnesota.

 

[labdad]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_ash_borer

 

[timbrjackrussel]

It's not just the EAB
http://hort.uwex.edu/articles/ash-yellows
Not much hope for the Ash trees

 

[Bushmans]

Michigan is all wiped out. Just got back from Northern Michigan and last year when we were up there at deer camp I noticed 2 trees that had spots. This year there are thousands of them popping there bark every where you look. Sure wish it was worth the gas mileage to go up there and get it. I could stack up 10 years worth of firewood so fast it make your head spin.

 

[Ronaldo]

I have several nice Ash trees in my and they are just starting to make great shade for the house and yard.
It sounds like their days are numbered as NE Iowa has the critters up there and will only be a matter of time..........

Ron

 

[John R]

It's in Upper Michigan as of this last summer.
I live in the Thumb and it wiped out all my Ash trees.

 

[Jakers]

ive seen signs of it around here but the DNR or Fish and Wildlife swears its not here. itll be like when the wolves moved in up north and they said "theres no wolves around here, your cattle and livestock are being killed by coyotes..." Till somebody gets one on a trail cam or video.

all the ash trees on my lot are still looking good but i brought home a bunch of ash from a couple miles away that showed severe signs of EAB. not sure if they just didnt survive or if they had already moved on but my trees are still good and truthfully thats the only sign of EAB ive seen here. maybe we will be lucky for a few more years

 

[Cheesecutter]

My county is the only county in this region so far not confirmed infected/detected with EAB. As of Nov. 1 we were added to the state quarantine list restricting firewood movement to slow the inevitable.

 

[blades]

When they do confirm it is in some area it has already been there for likely 2 or more years. We have it here in SE WI. Them Buggers got wings, fly on the wind, just no stopping it. Plus their cousin which is worse as it is not species specific is also around state side but we never here about it from the authorities. I took an Ash down some four years ago with it off my lot, 2 years before they confirmed a couple spots west and south of me. I did inform the locals ( got a conservatory behind my place, it will be a wide open swale in a couple more years) they were to busy with other pet projects. Different story now.

 

[philoshop]

FYI. Did a little searching and found this.
http://www.emeraldashborer.info/
Some good state by state info re quarantines, remedial actions, and such. Worth a look. There is a link to a web seminar on Dec 5 where you can ask questions.

 

[OhioGregg]

All of the State DNR agencies and such, while meaning well with all the firewood transportation rules and trying to eradicate the EAB, are futile in my opinion. Back several years ago when the EAB was first discovered in a town about 16 miles north of me, they would cut trees in peoples yards, city streets, parks etc. wherever they found evidence of it. Banned firewood movement, etc. In a year or so it was EVERYWHERE around these parts. (North west Ohio).

You drive anywhere around here now days, thats all you see is dead Ash trees in woodlots, fence rows, ditch & creek banks, peoples yards. I have been cutting mostly Ash for the last 3-4 years. We have 26 ac. of woodlot here. Not many good size trees left to cut, mostly small stuff. I think the only way the EAB is gonna be done with, is when it eats its way out of house & home, so to speak. They need live trees to lay eggs and feed on. I can't recall seeing one for some time now. Eventually they just move on to greener pastures. But they are gonna run out of live trees...then what do they do?

All the measures we take or can come up with do little to solve the problem. Nature will ultimately take care of it one way or the other. Good or bad. Maybe someday, probably not in my lifetime, the Ash trees will make a comeback. With the efforts of some to collect seed and such. Or maybe they actually missed a few trees and they will survive.

Gregg,

 

[kennyl70]

here in Mo. we r having a hella time with the pine beetle in some areas. seems every year i am taking down and burning ...... in the OWB new dead tree's.

 

[sachsmo]

I saw some of those little green devils last spring while Mushroom hunting.

Ain't no way to miss 'em they are iridescent.

 

[sachsmo]

Have dozens of these,

Gonna make a cave/loft in me pole barn.

 

[johnnylabguy]

The last two years ash is the only thing I've cut in my wood lot. Sad because they are some of the largest trees but not big enough for lumber. I'd say they made it to my area about 3 yrs ago here in north central ohio just west of Mansfield. Found this one playing on my kids' slide this spring.

 

[sachsmo]

Nasty,

but when life gives you lemons?

I often thought of, How do you peel a tree?

Devastating but beautiful.