URI Scientists Fight Invasive Tree-Killing Beetle With Beetle-Killing Wasp
September 17, 2020
September 17, 2020
KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Sept. 17 (TNSRes) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news:
When the invasive emerald ash borer, a beetle native to the Far East, was found in Rhode Island in 2018, it was a sign that most of the state's mature ash trees were likely to die soon. Now a team of entomologists from the University of Rhode Island is fighting the invader with a predatory wasp from its native land in hopes that the region's next generation of ash trees w . . .
When the invasive emerald ash borer, a beetle native to the Far East, was found in Rhode Island in 2018, it was a sign that most of the state's mature ash trees were likely to die soon. Now a team of entomologists from the University of Rhode Island is fighting the invader with a predatory wasp from its native land in hopes that the region's next generation of ash trees w . . .