Hey everyone. I'm forced to cut about 60 ash trees out due to an emerald Ash borer infestation killing them and causing a hazard. It also looks like they may have started to attack and damage my silver maple as some branches are falling and they are riddled with holes.
Ideally I'd like to remove the trees and plant and cultivate new trees in the same area. Is there anything I can do to limit them and possibly keep this from happening in the future or should I clear the area and just forget about trees for a few years?
Thank you for any input
Hi all, I live in the Eastern United States, and recently one of our neighbor's ash trees died, so we helped cut it down. While we were doing so I found a bunch of holes and tracks under the bark that I thought looked a bit like EAB. Can anyone help me confirm?
Why YSK: The emerald ash borer is an invasive insect from Asia that first appeared in the United States in 2002. First seen in Michigan, it has spread across the United States and Canada. The larvae eat the inner bark of ash trees, destroying the tree's ability to transport water and nutrients from its roots to its leaves. Hundreds of millions of ash trees have already been killed.
One way to know if your ash tree is infested is if you see blonding. You'll also see piles of wood bark on the ground at the base of the tree.
If you catch it early enough, you might be able to save the tree by having an arborist treat it with insecticide, or you might be able to save other ash trees on your property by cutting down the infested tree before the beetles spread to other trees.
However, it's sad to say that once you start seeing the blonding, it's probably too late to save the tree.
Hey all - so I've got this pretty big white ash tree (F. americana - about 2 foot diameter, 30-40 ft tall) and we have a lot of emerald ash borer in the area - in fact this tree has been attacked by it before, evidenced by one of the branches that still bares the tunnels in a patch where the bark had fallen off. The reason this one tree is still alive while all the others are dead is because it's been treated with systemic insecticide in the past. Specifically, we used ortho tree and shrub.
Now this pesticide needs to be reapplied every year, and I'm wondering if it's overall a net benefit to keep treating the tree to keep it alive or just to let it die. I understand systemic pesticides poison anything that tries to feed on the tree, not just emerald ash borer, so I have a bit of a dilemma on my hands - if I keep treating the tree, it could potentially be harming any native insects that attempt to utilize it, but if I stop treating it, it will almost certainly die to EAB - and I'll lose a really cool mature native tree.
If I treat it I guess the long-term plan would be to continue treating it until EAB numbers decline or go away after all the other ash have been exterminated. Is this realistic to expect, or is EAB here to stay, sending our native ash trees the way of the chestnut?
I went up this past weekend, and couldn't believe what I was seeing. Dead and dying trees everywhere! My heart is broken.
I live in Central NJ and my yard (13 acres) has alot of Emerald Ash Borers. A large majority of my trees are ash trees and most of them seem to be infested. We treated a few of the trees that are close to our house with this. That was back in March and they are still there and it seems to have gotten worse, the tops are almost completely dead. These trees are huge, its such a shame that some stupid bug is killing them. What can I do to help them since the insect drench didn't work?
