Asian Long-horned Beetle

[Sharon]

Now this looks bad.

http://www.lfpress.com/2017/04/09/th...-londons-trees

My brother ,who lives on Vancouver Island and has a hunting lodge in northern B.C., says the pine beetle has demolished much of that area.

scroll down to the picture:

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j...91949613551034

[JMatthews]

Not good. Let's hope that they don't spread. I'm having a hard enough time dealing with dying ash trees

[Sharon]

I've got a 500+- year old oak tree in the back yard. I can't image how much money it would cost to take that down.

[BIG MAC]

My brother-in-law lost 2 pine trees ( so far at his place ) in the east Kawarthas, we stay above the boat house and the tree was at the end of the stairs we go down to get to ground level, you could literally hear them chewing on the tree. 1 quiet fall night we where sitting in silence and could hear them easily 50' away from tree. needless to say tree died and has been cut down. The grubs in the trees where at least 1" 1 1/2" long and about as big around as your little finger. when we cut the tree up and burnt it it was full of their trails throughtout the tree. quite something to listen to them chewing away inside the tree. nobody beleived us until the came and listened for themselves. that was about 3 years ago and no other sign of them.

[dutchhunter]

We have lost over half of are bush because of these bugs. Terrible.

[cramadog2]

JMatthews we are just seeing the effects of the Emerald ash borer. The giant woodpeckers are shredding the ridges of the bark off the trees and leaving lots of small holes. You can see the track of the worm in places.

Do you have any uninfected trees in your bush and how long does it take them to die generally?

[Rodbender]

JMatthews we are just seeing the effects of the Emerald ash borer. The giant woodpeckers are shredding the ridges of the bark off the trees and leaving lots of small holes. You can see the track of the worm in places.

Do you have any uninfected trees in your bush and how long does it take them to die generally?

Just come to Ajax not many trees on roads anymore Hall's road JBen wouldn't recognise

[jaycee]

JMatthews we are just seeing the effects of the Emerald ash borer. The giant woodpeckers are shredding the ridges of the bark off the trees and leaving lots of small holes. You can see the track of the worm in places.

Do you have any uninfected trees in your bush and how long does it take them to die generally?

I have 14 Ash trees on our property that have to be cut down , it's a shame , I tried to save them by doing a lot of pruning but to no avail, it took about 5 to 6 years and they eventually all died. Previously I had also cut down 4 others that had been affected by the Asian Ash Borer.