http://northcountrynow.com/news/can...rnwall-beetle-could-devastate-ogdensburgs-tre It's just a matter of time for the EAB to hit Northern NY.
Confirmed here in Essex County, Ma. They are monitoring it. I have not heard of much of the ALB lately.
They've been around here for a while, within 25 miles of home and I'm sure they are in other places than the website shows them. There will likely be a lot of ash firewood for sale coming in the next few years and beyond.
They've been setting out the traps to see if the infestation has gotten here yet. Been checking for about three years now. We have been safe in the southern part of the state, so far. I'm sure they are close, though. According to a recent study, the woodpecker is the best form of control. The population of woodpeckers should grow as the EAB enters an area. Woodpeckers love these bugs that seem to be bullet proof. Maybe it would be a good idea to introduce more woodpecker before the EAB becomes entrenched. Either the Ash will be wiped out, or the EAB will starve from lack of live Ash trees. The woodpecker could either delay the inevitable or wipe out the bastages.
That would be one reason to like the extreme cold we've had. I'll take the colder temps if it rids us of the EAB.
No prob. I am not counting on the temps to eliminate them. We did have -29 degrees here one or two days and many, many days of -15 to -20. I sure do hope we get some real cold weather every winter from now on. Maybe it will keep them in check around here so they don't destroy every Ash tree around. We have had too many mild winters lately. If mother nature brought back the real cold winters maybe it would put a real hurting on the EAB and the ticks. I hate ticks! But, unfortunately, I do not think that is what our future holds. After this thaw we have now it looks like back to some cooler temperatures. Too bad they won't be -20!
My county was quarantined in '08 IIRC and I've yet to see ash die off or a log come into the mill with tell tale signs of EAB.
I have wondered about this. We have the red bellied and red headed and downy but never had pileated until after the EAB infestation. Now we still have them around and they are a pretty bird. Sad part is all our ash trees are dead already.
Did you read the links and results of the testing? I don't think the cold will get rid of them. But if it gets real cold, like it did this year several times, I think it will put a hurtin on them. Now, if we can just get some more cold winters.
