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Article: A beetle bores in Brooklyn Foresters fear insect could spread and blight New England maples
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 21, 1996
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An Asian beetle that found its way to Brooklyn, N.Y., is devouring
maple trees there, and some foresters fear that the insects will
spread, ravaging maples -- and dimming fall foliage displays --
across the country.
So far, the damage has been limited to some 200 Norway maples in
Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood, and it's not clear that the
invader, an Asian long-horned beetle new to this country, will try to
expand its terrritory.
But given the beetle's hardiness and apparent lack of natural
predators in North America, some tree specialists fear the worst: a
killer that could spread from a single site, the way Dutch elm blight
spread from Cleveland in the early 1930s, to devastate a ...