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Emerald Ash Borer Background and Update
Portland Area Municipal MeetingDecember 18, 2019
Allison KanotiState Entomologist
[email protected], (207) 827-1813
Background Image: Maine’s Champion Green Ash, Portland Maine. Credit: Friends of Portland Maine Forest City Trees
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Metallic woodboring beetle (Buprestidae) Native to Asia
~ ½” longmetallic green
What is Emerald Ash Borer?
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White Green Brown
Opposite branchingCompound leavesBark – diamond-shape furrows or corkyOar-shaped seeds
Photos from “Forest Trees of Maine” by the Maine Forest Service
Paul Wray, Iowa State University
Kills healthy or declining ash (Fraxinus spp.)Emerald Ash Borer Food: Ash (Fringetree, too)
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Ash in Maine• Ash makes up ~ 4%
of hardwood forests in Maine.
• Ash is not evenly spread across the region.
• Ash is a common landscape/street tree. (Portland: 609 stems in street tree inventory)
Source: Individual Tree Species Parameter Maps, USFS, FHTET
https://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/applied-sciences/mapping-reporting/data-app-development.shtml
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• 35 States
• 5 Provinces
• 2 Areas of Maine
Emerald Ash Borer in North America
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Emerald Ash Borer In Maine
• Detections in 2018 far north and south (Aroostook, Cumberland and York)
• Apparently early in establishment, light infestations
• Outside areas with heaviest ash resource
Source: Individual Tree Species Parameter Maps, USFS, FHTET
https://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/applied-sciences/mapping-reporting/data-app-development.shtml
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Emerald Ash Borer in
Southern Maine
September 2018: Acton, Lebanon (trap)February 2019: Berwick, Acton (branch)September 2019: Lebanon (branch)October 2019: Portland (trap)Nov/Dec 2019: Alfred, Kittery, Limington,
Acton, Lebanon, Berwick (trap trees)
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Beetles leave trees in May-June
Eggs are laid on outside of bark
Larvae develop under bark, often through two summers
Pre-pupae rest in wood or bark through winter.
Pupae form in spring/immature larvae resume feeding
Beetles leave trees in May-June
Emerald Ash Borer Life Cycle
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Emerald Ash Borer Life Cycle: Evidence in trees