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Help USDA Fight Hungry Pests: Keep an Eye Out for Asian Longhorned Beetle

August 01, 2012 Rebecca Blue, USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs

Throughout August, a little-known beetle may emerge from the trees in your community. You might see its long black and white antennae inching out from a dime-shaped hole in your favorite tree. The pest, named the Asian longhorned beetle, kills trees from the inside out. It attacks 13 types of...

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Let's End Beetlemania Together

April 24, 2012 Rhonda Santos, APHIS ALB Public Information Officer

Imagining our communities without trees is hard to fathom. Unfortunately, there is an insect that threatens the trees we love – the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB). It’s an invasive insect that feeds on certain species of hardwood trees, eventually killing them. Since its discovery in the United...

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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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