Environment Current Event project on Emerald Ash Borer

2.  The emerald ash borer is a bug that is native to
Asia. Its first sighting in America was in June
2002 in Canton Michigan. It came to America in
shipping containers from Asia that were
accidentally contaminated with the bug. The
bug infested Michigan. Then Michigan
accidentally sent contaminated trees to
Virginia. The bug worked its way up to New
York killing a lot of ash trees.

3.  The emerald ash borer bug gets inside ash
trees and lays eggs. Then the larva eat the
cambium and phloem (which are things the
tree needs to distribute nutrients) and that kills
the tree within two years.

4.  The emerald ash borer kills many ash trees
and continues to spread.
 The threat is that the bug will kill all the ash
trees in the United States and effect the echo
system.

5.  There are many ways to protect your ash trees
from the emerald ash borer. You can have
professionals come and infuse a chemical into
the tree that protects it. Also you can buy a
chemical that hooks to your hose and you
spray around the tree. The roots suck up the
chemical and the tree is protected.

6.  Watch Protect trees from EAB video below.

7.  You cannot see that your tree has the emerald
ash borer because the bug goes inside the tree
and starts to kill it .But there are signs that your
tree has the bug.
 One sign is tiny D shaped holes in the bark of
the tree.
 Another sign is the tree will grow stems on the
base of the trunk.

8.  Watch the Identify EAB in trees video below.

9.  The slogan “Buy it where you burn it" means
that when you buy fire wood you should burn
it there. If you move the wood to other places
there is a risk of spreading wood bugs such as
the emerald ash borer.

10.  The Emerald ash borer was first sited in
America in 2002.
 The bug was first sited in the Monroe County
area in late October, 2011.

11.  The people involved in the event would be any
home, business or place that has ash trees.

12.  The issue connects with the United States
because its happening in the United States.
 The issue has not effected Spencerport yet, but
with the bug found in Monroe county it could
spread to the ash trees in Spencerport.

13.  http://www.aphis.usda.gov/hungrypests/US
_PestTracker.swf
 Go to the above site, hover over emerald ash
bore to see where in the US, the bugs has
effected.