{"id":613,"date":"2012-04-18T14:54:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T14:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthonypioppi.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2012-04-18T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T15:51:40","slug":"emerald-ash-borer-discovered-east-of-the-hudson-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/blog\/613\/emerald-ash-borer-discovered-east-of-the-hudson-river","title":{"rendered":"Emerald Ash Borer Discovered East of the Hudson River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The finding of the emerald ash borer east of the Hudson River\u00a0may not be all bad news. According<a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/04\/emeraldashborer_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-614\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/04\/emeraldashborer_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a> to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/connecticut\/hc-emerald-ash-borer-investation-0419-20120418,0,6698251.story\">story<\/a> by the Associated Press. The insect has the potential to destroy every ash tree in North America.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the discovery of an emerald ash borer infestation in the Dutchess  County village of Rhinecliff last month may signal a victory in the  battle to stem the pest&#8217;s spread: Foresters believe the colony was  caught less than a year after it got established, a big step given that  the beetle can go unnoticed for years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Wikipedia entry on emerald ash borer found by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emerald_ash_borer\">here<\/a>, &#8220;The potential damage of this insect rivals Chestnut blight and Dutch Elm Disease. Since its accidental introduction into the United States and Canada in the 1990s, and its subsequent detection in 2002,<sup> <\/sup>it has spread to 14 and adjacent parts of Canada. It has killed at least 50 to 100 million  ash trees so far and threatens to kill most of the 7.5 billion ash trees  throughout North America. The emerald ash borer is now one of the most destructive non-native  insects in the United States; it and other wood-boring pests cause an  estimated $3.5 billion in annual damages in the U.S.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A detailed explanation of the emerald ash borer infestation, including how home owners can identify it, can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/emeraldashborer.info\/index.cfm\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One theory on how the insect arrived in North America says that the bugs came via wooden pallets that had been improperly treated at their point of origin, most likely China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finding of the emerald ash borer east of the Hudson River\u00a0may not be all bad news. According to this&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/blog\/613\/emerald-ash-borer-discovered-east-of-the-hudson-river\" title=\"ReadEmerald Ash Borer Discovered East of the Hudson River\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[415387],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-emerald-ash-borer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}