Re: New Invasive Insect.
[Re: logger coffey]
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10/25/18 08:06 PM
10/25/18 08:06 PM
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Lugnut
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I live a few miles from the epicenter of this invasion. The spotted lantern fly came in with shipments of rocks from China to Rolling Rock Quarry in Berks County PA. I’m amazed how far they have spread in the few short years they’ve been here.
I’m even more amazed that it’s cost-effective to import rocks from China.
Eh...wot?
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Re: New Invasive Insect.
[Re: logger coffey]
#6356878
10/25/18 11:07 PM
10/25/18 11:07 PM
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KeithC
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I lost about 350 ash trees to the emerald ash borers on my farm. I have a few smaller, sapling ash trees left, but I doubt they will make it to adulthood.
I ran the fastest I have in years, a few days ago, when I was clearing the ash branches from my Mother's driveway, that fell during a windstorm, so I could drive up. The 40 some inch diameter ash, that dropped most of the branches made a loud cracking noise and I thought it was going to smash me. Many of the branches fell and impaled the ground and were standing up like fence posts. She had 4 40 some inch diameter ash trees fall over.
I don't have any tree of heaven trees, but I do have around 20 apple trees and a grape arbor that the new pest can kill.
Growing up, most people I knew called tree of heaven stinkwood. We would brake them off at the root ball, by rapidly pulling them back and forth. Some were well over 30 foot tall. It took 4 to 6 kids to pull over a big one. The stinkwood trees would quickly regrow. As kids we used them to build a lot of forts, cabins and used stinkwood as firewood.
Customs needs to inspect imports much better than they do.
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Re: New Invasive Insect.
[Re: Tactical.20]
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10/26/18 03:41 AM
10/26/18 03:41 AM
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gryhkl
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This one from China too? Bad enough the emerald Ash borer is coming Nearly impossible to find an ash tree that is not already dead around here. I lost a couple hundred. It's good firewood but you have to get it cut fast, before it rots.
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Re: New Invasive Insect.
[Re: logger coffey]
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10/26/18 10:49 AM
10/26/18 10:49 AM
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pcr2
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there is millions and millions of board feet of ash sitting in containers all over the seas between here and China.suddenly stopped but bet it starts moving again soon.
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