Emerald ash borer? (2015, house, neighborhood)

[Pincho-toot]

Is emerald ash borer wreaking havoc on your local ash trees?

We have been losing a LOT of our trashes here in MN to this nasty pest. This summer looks worse than ever. I have seen entire blocks of dead trees in the dead of summer. Very sad. A giant ash tree in the house I moved to this March also looks to have succumbed to it. I know some smaller towns have predominantly ash trees. Sad to think how in danger their trees are.

[windchill]

Our St. Paul neighborhood was hit. Not as bad as some but bad enough.

Cruel irony, that these ash trees replaced the elms that were decimated in the 70’s 80’s by Dutch Elm Disease.

[Pincho-toot]

Originally Posted by windchill

Our St. Paul neighborhood was hit. Not as bad as some but bad enough.

Cruel irony, that these ash trees replaced the elms that were decimated in the 70’s 80’s by Dutch Elm Disease.

Yea it looks like to me like the south metro might be more hard hit than the north metro.

I forget where I was the other day, probably Burnsville area, but a whole boulevard was just full of dead trees.

[mshultz]

Yes, the Ash trees on my property are dead.

[North 42]

The Emerald Ash Borer went through our area about 25 years ago, basically wiped out all of them. There are new ash trees growing here again, so not sure how long they will last if the Ash Borer returns in big numbers.

[suzco]

Originally Posted by Pincho-toot

Is emerald ash borer wreaking havoc on your local ash trees?
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Here in Colorado, from Colorado State Forest Service:

Emerald Ash Borer: A Green Menace

Since its initial discovery in southeastern Michigan in 2002, this insect has killed millions of ash trees (Fraxinus spp.) throughout the central and northeastern United States and Canada. EAB is now considered the most destructive tree insect pest ever to be introduced into North America.

An infestation was first detected in Colorado in the City of Boulder in September 2013. Approximately 15 percent of the trees in Colorado’s urban forests are ash, making this insect a major threat to urban forests statewide.
Where is EAB in Colorado?

EAB has been confirmed in unincorporated Larimer County and in the cities of Boulder, Gunbarrel, Longmont, Lafayette, Lyons, Superior, Broomfield, Westminster, Erie, Arvada and Thornton.
The entire City of Boulder was presumed infested at the close of 2015.
In 2019, EAB was confirmed in the City of Broomfield, the first confirmation in Colorado outside of a federal quarantine, and (for the first time) in unincorporated Larimer County. The EAB quarantine around Boulder County was repealed effective Dec. 30, 2019.
The most recent confirmed detections have been in Littleton (June 2023) and Carbondale (June 2023). . .

[nadnerb]

An Emerald Ash Borer was spotted for the first time on the West Coast last year (in Forest Grove, Oregon).

I hadn’t heard of EAB but the speed with which all the government organizations responded and took action really expressed how serious it was. An entomologist from the Oregon Department of Forestry went out to Forest Grove on the same day that the biologist from Portland discovered it. Some invasive species specialists from multiple state agencies verified. Then, the infected trees were cut down 2 days after the initial discovery. And this was all over a holiday weekend! This was shockingly fast for government response.

[Champ le monstre du lac]

Unfortunately yes. My father's property in Massachusetts had lots of ash trees. The bark has been all chewed up and killed off every single ash on the property. Ash trees change to beautiful colors in the fall and it's a shame to lose them. Many of the hardwood species are vulnerable.

[jennifat]

My parents who live in the northern suburbs have probably 10+ ash trees on their property and almost all of them are in various stages of infestation.

What's especially sad is that a lot of the elms that were decimated by Dutch Elm Disease decades ago here in the Twin Cities were replaced with ash trees, which are again dying en masse.

[KO Stradivarius]

I lost a nice ash tree to them about 15 yrs ago when I lived in Michigan. Replaced it with a red maple. Now I live in AZ and have two large Arizona Ashes, but I don't think the EAB has invaded here yet. But I heard it will eventually.

Here is a nice map showing where it has invaded as of Jan '21: http://www.emeraldashborer.info/docu...ate_EABpos.pdf

This article says, "It is expected that emerald ash borer will ultimately kill almost every unprotected ash tree presently growing in North America."
https://cales.arizona.edu/yavapai/an...20the%20state.

Maybe years after all of the ash trees die off, the EABs will not be able to hang around and ash trees can be planted again.