Dill discusses invasive emerald ash borer with WAGM
WAGM (Channel 8 in Presque Isle) interviewed University of Maine Cooperative Extension pest management specialist Jim Dill about the emerald ash borer that has been spotted this summer in Edmundston and parts of northern Maine. The invasive, metallic green beetles are a devastating threat to ash trees, and since its discovery in the United States in 2002, it has killed millions of the trees. “You want to look for flagging in the trees … You want to look, as I say, for holes in the bark where they’ve emerged.” Dill says people can cut other ash trees around one that’s impacted “because then you can use the lumber [and] try to stop the spread of it.”