Invasive Tree Beetle

The familiar traps we’ve seen hanging in trees across the North Country have finally captured a destructive insect that foresters fear could kill millions of Ash trees in Northern New York. Emerald Ash Borers have been found for the first time in the Adirondacks, turning up in traps in Franklin and St. Lawrence Counties.

More information available from New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s website: www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7253.html