But Peabody points out the Emerald Ash Borer has already left its mark on other ash trees throughout the municipality as well as along some country roads.
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The Emerald Ash Borer is extending its reign in the US, as 5 more Tennessee counties have just been added to its quarantine list, only three weeks after several New Jersey counties have been included.
Franklin, Marshall, Rutherford, Trousdale and Williamson counties are now under restriction for the movement of ash trees and ash tree products after the insect was discovered in traps in those counties.
The people from these regions are advised to contact exterminators and to prepare to fight the expansion of the emerald ash borer.
But that hasn’t stopped the U.S. Department of Agriculture from placing traps around the Denver metro area to detect any early signs of emerald ash borer when it’s still possible to save an ash tree.
The traps were placed in ash trees in Columbine Hills; Marker parks and in a tree along the East Woodmar Greenbelt.
If the pests approach the trap then they get stuck on its adhesive present on its exterior side.
Baie-D’Urfé is taking similar measures to identify and treat all of its ash trees before they die. Mahaffey changed the lure and said she will return to remove the traps in late August or early September when the borers are rarely seen. As of today, Tennessee now has 46 counties under quarantine. However, given the fact that it is extremely easy for the borer to be migrate along with various wood transports, it is going to be a very tough fight to put an end to its expansion.
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“I guess it’s an honest disclosure that traps don’t work as well as we would like them to”, Pottorff said. This is formost the american Department of Agriculture to set up traps at places.
