Emerald ash borer (EAB) resource
Mark Whitmore, Department of Natural Resources, has prepared a ppt on EAB which he uses with community groups to discuss some of the issues and he hopes cooperative extension personnel might find useful. Mark does not take specimens for identification – these go the regular route, in this case, through the Department of Agriculture and Markets who may forward them on to the Insect Diagnostic Lab at Cornell if they are suspects.
Please note, the most current map of EAB infestation can be found at:
http://www.emeraldashborer.info/map.cfm
EAB presentation (pdf)
Contact Max Welcome (mw45) for the powerpoint version available from our CCE Community Horticulture Resource Library.
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Mark
The Bayer Advanced Tree and Shrub product (and Merit, the corresponding professional product), have been used with more than ‘limited success’.
The product has been tested extensively in more than two dozen trials over the past five years at Michigan State, Ohio State, and Purdue. The data clearly show that properly used, soil-applied imidacloprid provides excellent preventative and early curative control of EAB.
Please contact me if you’d like to see the data. Or better yet, contact Dave Smitley at Michigan State, Dan Herms at Ohio State, or Cliff Sadof at Purdue, and they can provide you with the information demonstrating the efficacy of soil-applied imidacloprid.
Soil-applied imidacloprid also is much cheaper for the homeowner, whether he applies it himself with BA Tree and Shrub, or whether he hires a professional arborist to apply Merit.
Thanks. Sorry if I sound testy. It’s frustrating when good science takes a back seat to good PR, which is what’s been happening with the Tree-age/soil-applied imidacloprid debate.
Nate Royalty
Product Development Manager
Bayer Environmental Science
1-919-549-2532