Feb 13, 2017 | News, News/PR
Landowners across Northern Virginia and Northwest Virginia are seeing damage to the bark of ash trees, and many are calling the Virginia Department of Forestry asking what is wrong. Bark on these trees is being stripped off by woodpeckers hunting for Emerald Ash Borer...
Aug 27, 2014 | News, News/PR
Virginia’s ash tree population likely will be decimated in the next decade by an invading green beetle smaller than a penny found as close to Lynchburg as Campbell County. While the emerald ash borer has not been confirmed in the George Washington or Jefferson...
Feb 8, 2013 | News, News/PR
The emerald ash borer is one of the most destructive forest pests introduced to North America in recent years. Adult beetles merely nibble on the leaves of native ash trees, but their larvae burrow through the inner bark of the tree, leaving a trail of snaky galleries...
Jul 18, 2012 | News, News/PR
An invasive wood-boring beetle has spread to more than a dozen counties in Virginia, threatening millions of ash trees, state forestry officials said last week. The emerald ash borer, a native of Asia first detected in the U.S. 10 years ago, has now spread to the...