Boston Flora

Tag: Asian Longhorned Beetle

  • Thursday, April 29, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon – Invasive Insects In Our Urban Forest, Online

    Thursday, April 29, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon – Invasive Insects In Our Urban Forest, Online

    Invasive insects not only impact our naturalized areas, but our urban forests and managed landscapes as well. Insects including the Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) and emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) have had striking impacts in Massachusetts and beyond. Relatively new non-native species, like the spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula), continue to threaten our shade trees, ornamentals, and agriculture. This online presentation will discuss how to identify these organisms and the damage they cause, their biology, and where to report suspicious insects so you can help protect the Commonwealth. The event is co-sponsored by The Garden Club of the Back Bay and Speak for the Trees, Boston, on April 29 at 11 am, with speaker Tawny Simisky, Extension Entomologist, UMASS Extension.

    To register please click here: https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrf-6vrT4tE9c6Zv6Pg8vQzMToDHdZUUzA

  • Tuesday, April 11, 7:30 pm – Chemical Ecology and Behavior of the Emerald Ash Borer and Asian Longhorned Beetle

    Emerald Ash borer (EAB) Agrilus planipennis and the Asian longhorned Beetle (ALB) Anoplophora glabripennis, are considered to be two of the most serious invasive pests of deciduous trees in North America. Efficient monitoring traps are needed to detect and delimit new introductions and assess population densities of established infestations. Development of a monitoring trap for these pests are hindered by their complex sequence of mating behaviors.

    EAB and ALB mating involves host kairomones, male produced short range pheromones, female produced short range pheromones, female produced trail and cuticular contact pheromones, along with important visual cues. A Tuesday, April 11 Cambridge Entomological Club presentation by Dr. Damon Crook of the USDA will discuss the complex chemical ecology of these insects and show what electrophysiological and behavioral research is currently being done at the Otis USDA laboratory with regards to identifying and testing new potential attractants and traps.

    The lecture will take place at Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, MCA 101 in Cambridge. Parking permits are available: see www.entclub.org for details. Free and open to the public.

  • August is Tree Check Month

    The Ecological Landscape Association. www.ecolandscaping.org, has sent us this reminder. We approach the 5th anniversary of the discovery of Asian Longhorned Beetle in Massachusetts. Since 2008, more than 30,000 hardwood trees have been removed because of this invasive pest. Recently, another wood-boring beetle, the Emerald Ash Borer, was found in Berkshire County, and now threatens millions of Ash trees in the state. Join your fellow citizens during the month of August and check your trees for signs of damage caused by Asian Longhorned Beetle and Emerald Ash Borer, and learn to recognize the beetles themselves. For more detailed information, visit http://massnrc.org/pests/blog/ or email Stacy Kilb, ALB Outreach Coordinator at stacy.kilb@state.ma.us or call (617)780-1371.

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  • Tuesday, August 7, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – Asian Longhorned Beetle Workshop

    The Asian Longhorned Beetle has often been the source behind many tree-related woes. During the spring of 2011, The Friends of the Public Garden conducted a search with the Boston University Global Day of Service FOPG team to look for the beetle throughout parts of Boston, specifically the Common and the Public Garden.

    On August 7, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation’s lead ALB Forester Julie Coop will be hosting a free workshop on the beetle at the Franklin Park Golf Course Clubhouse in Dorchester. It will run from 6:30-8:00 P.M. and will teach people how to identify the Asian Longhorned Beetle and prevent it from spreading in Boston.

    The Asian Longhorned Beetle is a terribly invasive insect that destroys trees. The beetle has been found throughout Massachusetts and could threaten trees within the city if it is not identified properly and quickly. We hope you will be able to participate in this informative workshop with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation so we can protect our trees!

  • Tuesday, November 8, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – The Flipside of Biological Invasions: The Positive Social Impact of Working with the Asian Longhorned Beetle

    On Tuesday, November 8, the Cambridge Entomological Club will present Michael Bohne, Forest Health Group Leader of the US Forest Service, Durham Field Office, who will, improbably, resuscitate the image of the Asian Longhorned Beetle with his lecture entitled The Flipside of Biological Invasions: The Positive Social Impact of Working with the Asian Longhorned Beetle. The talk is free and open to the public. The meeting is readily accessible via public transportation. Parking is available in the Oxford Street Garage with advance arrangement, as described here, or (usually but not always) at spaces on nearby streets. Everyone is also welcome to join us for dinner before the talk (beginning at 6:15 PM) at the Harvard Law School cafeteria, on the second floor of Harkness Commons.

    CEC meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month from October through May. The evening schedule typically includes an informal dinner (6:15 to 7:15 PM) followed by our formal meeting (7:30 – 9:00 PM) in MCZ 101, 26 Oxford Street, Harvard University. The latter begins with club business and is followed by a 50 minute entomology related presentation. Membership is open to amateur and professional entomologists.  For more information, email CEC President Jessica Walden-Gray at jessisoutside@gmail.com.

  • Thursday, August 19, 5:15 pm – Cambridge Premiere of Bugged

    You are invited to the Cambridge Premiere of BUGGED, The Race to Eradicate the Asian Longhorned Beetle, Narrated by Emmy Award-Winning News Correspondent Pat Dawson, Produced/Directed by Emily Driscoll, on Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 5:15PM, at The Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge.

    For more information, call 617.495.3045 or log on to www.hmnh.harvard.edu

    Bugged is “…frankly one of the most comprehensive and best educational documentaries on the Asian longhorned beetle that has been made to date….Now, more than ever, the general public needs to remain observant and vigilant in case ALB shows up in your city or neighborhood. This short film will broaden one’s view of this most important and unwanted pest!”

    -Richard Hoebeke, Taxonomic and Survey Entomologist, Cornell University

    About the Documentary:
    Alien invaders live hidden among us. The Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) is one of the world’s worst invasive species and could destroy one third of America’s trees. Now, for the first time, the ALB infests a city (Worcester) on the edge of a natural forested area. Follow the scientists, USDA officials and private citizens who are the front lines in the Asian longhorned beetle eradication war.

    Bugged is the first documentary to present the national story of the ALB infestation in America and to explore the  science of eradication.

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  • Wednesday, August 4, 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm – Bugged

    Martin Luttrell of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette has posted the following announcement, which may be found in full at www.telegram.com:

    Shortly after earning her economics degree at George Washington University, Fitchburg native Emily V. Driscoll set her sights on science journalism, getting a master’s degree and setting to work as a documentary film maker.  And after producing a number of short-form documentaries as a member of a production company, she returned to Central Massachusetts to document the efforts to eradicate the Asian longhorned beetle.

    Bugged: The Race to Eradicate the Asian Longhorned Beetle, is the first science documentary Ms. Driscoll has directed. It will be shown in Worcester and Fitchburg next month.  Ms. Driscoll, 29, said she began interviewing sources for the project in September and finished editing the 24-minute piece in June.

    “I want to spread awareness of the Asian longhorned beetle in America, and the extraordinary efforts at eradication,” she said in a telephone interview from her home in New York City. “I want people to understand the gravity of the situation, and the efforts that go into containing it.”

    The Asian longhorned beetle destroys trees by boring holes through them, and some officials are concerned that they are endangering trees and forests throughout New England. The infestation area in and around Worcester now covers 74 square miles, where more than 25,600 trees have been cut down.

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture has put up $41.5 million to expand the eradication project this year, and officials with that government department have said they are optimistic that eradication should succeed over the next 10 years.

    Ms. Driscoll, who moved from Fitchburg to New York City while in elementary school, received her economics degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., in 2002, and her master’s degree in science journalism from New York University in 2007. She is now working toward a master’s in science documentary production at the Gallatin School, a school of individual study within NYU.   The film will be shown at the Worcester Public Library at 2 and 6 p.m. Aug. 4. Ms. Driscoll will not be present for those screenings, but will be on Aug. 6 in Fitchburg. That screening will take place at Riverfront Park, at a time to be announced.

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  • Tuesday, July 13, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Asian Longhorned Beetle Public Meeting

    A consortium of city, state, and federal officials will host an informational meeting to discuss the recent discovery of an infestation of the Asian Longhorned Beetle in Boston.

    The public is invited to attend this informational meeting on the invasive beetle and steps being taken to fight it.  The meeting will be held at the Franklin Park Golf Clubhouse, Circuit Drive, in Dorchester.  For further information, please call (866) 702-9938.

    To report suspicious tree damage, view photographs and videos of tree damage, or read about the Asian longhorned beetle, visit www.mass.gov/agr/alb.htm or call the toll-free Asian longhorned beetle hotline at 866-702-9938.

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  • Wednesday, June 23, 3:00 pm – Search for the Asian Longhorned Beetle

    The Friends of the Public Garden, along with its partner The Highland Street Foundation, hosts a volunteer opportunity on the Boston Common Wednesday, June 23, beginning at 3 pm.  After attending a training session, volunteers will use maps created from a tree inventory to look for evidence of the longhorned beetle in trees on the Common.  A reception at the Parkman House to thank the Highland Street Foundation for funding the inventory will follow.  Free.  For more information log on to www.friendsofthepublicgarden.org.

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  • Wednesday, November 18, 12 noon – 1:30 pm – Asian Longhorned Beetle: Identification and Controls

    Unable to to come to the Commonwealth Avenue Mall on Saturday morning at 9 am, November 14 for the Asian Longhorned Beetle Battle?  If you are yet unsure what the dread Asian Longhorned Beetle looks like, you have a second chance. Come to Garden in the Woods, 180 Hemenway Road in Framingham, on Wednesday, November  18 at noon for a one and one half hour lesson and lecture.  Hear what is being done to control this damaging pest.  Bring a brown-bag lunch.  There is no cost, but pre-registration is necessary.  Call 508-877-7630, ext. 3303, or email registrar@newenglandwild.org.  For more information, log on to www.newenglandwild.org.

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