The Emerald Ash Borer, known as 'The Green Menace,' has the potential to kill 45,000 trees in a single Colorado community.
will eat up foliage on ash trees – their only food source. But it's the larvae that eat up the inner bark of ash trees and prevent nutrients and water from circulating.
Charles Burnham, Forest Health Program Supervisor of the Department of Conservation and Recreation points to the hole that an Emerald Ash Borer creates to enter the ash tree. It's believed that the insects were introduced to the U.S. from Asia after tagging along on solid wood packing material, the network said. They were first discovered in the U.S. near Detroit in 2002, and have since expanded to at least 35 states as well as at least five Canadian provinces.
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