Mark Whitmore, Cornell UniversityMark Whitmore, Cornell University
"The Emerald Ash Borer: The biology and potential impacts of an aggressive, invasive, non-native forest pest and how New Yorkers are responding"
4:00 p.m.
CNS 112
Department Seminar Series
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In the short time since its introduction from eastern Asia to the Detroit area in the mid-1990’s the Emerald Ash Borer has become one of the most devastating forest pests in North America. Why is this beautiful little beetle such a successful invasive? What is the prognosis for its ash hosts, the genus Fraxinus, in New York and North America? What has been the human response to this pest and what lessons can be applied to existing and future invasive forest pests? The answers to these and other questions lay in a combination of biology, ecology, sociology, and politics. This is an interesting bug!
Photo credit: Kent Loeffler, Cornell University
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20111025145252197