Was cutting some ash at the property today that has been down and dead for a long time. Im in SE Michigan so ground zero for EAB. I find these.....still alive and basically hibernating. Are these EAB's? Also knocked down a small standing dead cherry that will be burnt tonight.
I just googled the EAB and those do look like it. They do have a green color to them so what you saw does it have a green color. Congrats on the cherry should make for a nice fire.
It’s strange that you found them under the bark. It’s my understanding the larvae feed on the cambium layer, then emerge from the bark in the spring as full grown adults, where they fly off to another tree to lay their eggs in, repeating the cycle.
They look like them but were brown which is why Im confused. At first I thought they were dead and crispy until I realized they were alive. With no ash alive in the area are they just waiting for one to sprout up? Of course it could be some look alike but man idk.
Does not look like an EAB to me. Every one I have found, dead or alive are definitely colored and not brown. But I do not know what that bug is that you found.
Yeah they are a borer, but not eab, based on the color. Usually, like Eric Schamell noted, they emerge from the bark and you'll never see the adult under the bark. I have a picture of one that must've been killed as it left the bark. It was stuck.
Those look like click beetles. Maybe using the EAB tunnels??? I cant say ive sever seen an EAB larvae or adult while scrounging ash.
Well its good to know theyre not EAB since Im planning on replanting some European Ash ( which is resistant to eab) on the property in the near future.
