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Plant Protection and Quarantine

What’s Purple, Sticky and Hangs in an Ash Tree? Emerald Ash Borer Survey Traps!

April 20, 2011 Sharon Lucik, APHIS Public Affairs, Brighton, MI

Animal Plant Health Inspection Services’ (APHIS) Brian Deschu sets EAB detection tools (purple traps) along the roadside right-of-way as part of the national effort to survey for this invasive, tree-killing pest.

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Free Kit Helps Educators Empower Students to Become ‘Beetle Busters’

April 07, 2011 Christine Markham, National ALB Eradication Program Director, Raleigh, NC

A free curriculum available online can help educators teach students how to spot the invasive Asian longhorned beetle. Infestations of the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) have been initially reported by alert members of communities in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and Massachusetts. As summer...

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Beetle Eradication Staff Helps Community with Toy and Food Drives

April 07, 2011 Rhonda Santos, APHIS Public Affairs Specialist, Worcester, MA

The Asian Longhorned Beetle eradication staff in Worcester looks for pests up in the tree but also leaves presents under the tree. The Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) eradication program in Worcester, Mass., began when a resident from the Greendale neighborhood found a strange-looking insect in her...

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