Ash Borer found in Ma

[Mad Professor]

Dalton Ma trap found a borer.

I've got a lot of baseball bats to harvest ASAP

 

[ShaneLogs]

Ugh oh! I am in Maine and that is not far from you! I don't want to loose all my Ash trees.

 

[stihly dan]

I know there in NH too. They just have not found them yet.

 

[elmoleaf]

More bad news...."SHREWSBURY, Mass. – About 90 percent of trees on a town-owned 13-acre lot on Shrewsbury's Ireta Road will be removed because of Asian Longhorned beetle infestation. "

 

[Mad Professor]

I know there in NH too. They just have not found them yet.

Unless you see the vermin, are you sure it is not just Ash disease that bhas been killing our Ash for > 25 years now?

Symptoms are same a EAB, tops die followed by the tree. I've been burning standing dead ash since the 1980s

 

[stihly dan]

I don't know what they look like, but I would put money that they are here. To many dying the last couple of years. Just seems to make sense.

 

[Denis Gionet]

I spotted some larvae in a pine I was splitting, the tree was dead and knocked over by the wind, lying across the road. There were a couple of Asian Longhorned beetles (or local pine beetles, which are almost identical) buzzing around the woodpile, just too much of a co-incidence. I promptly squish every one I find.

 

[AIM]

The only good thing about the bug is that it makes cutting wood real easy. You'll have dead trees EVERYWHERE!

 

[Kmaxwell102]

Ugh oh! I am in Maine and that is not far from you! I don't want to loose all my Ash trees.

I hear ya! Theres only so much we can do to slow the spread though :/