Audubon Magazine: Using a Wasp to Catch a Beetle - The Quest to Save Ash Trees


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For nearly a decade, a tiny alien menace, a beetle known as the emerald ash borer, has been destroying some of the nation’s most iconic native trees. Now researchers are honing a new method that uses wasps to ferret out these invasive beetles. The technique could help prevent the spreading of the emerald ash borer, as well as benefit other imperiled plants in the future, both in the U.S. and abroad.

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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 1/31/2012 2:00 PM
Categories: Invertebrates
Tags: beetle wasps ash trees invasive beetles insects native trees
 

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