SHORT NOTICE; Asian long horn advisory session south east

[jaime bray]

Dear all,

 

Have been asked to circulate this info, please feel free to contact aa for further advise or info Re. this event.

 

Regards,

 

Jaime Bray

ASIAN LONGHORNED BEETLE Event 12 April 2012.pdf

[jaime bray]

Or, to be fair, save peppering the headoffice lines for info, email me [email protected] for further contact details.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

thanks Jaime, I think i might turn up for this, right up my street.

[Tom D]

Anyone know what the treatment for this is likely to be?

[jaime bray]

Just to reiterate, this is a free event. A gathering of people relevant to the control and awareness program proposed for the eradication/containment of this pest.

 

It is hoped that as many contractors or industry related people as poss turn out for this, to broaden the net on the eradication.

 

Control measures etc will be discussed on site id imagine tom. hopefully a good representation from arbtalk will enable us all to get a more up to date briefing of the pest population via feedback.

 

Its to far for me to travel, so any feedback would be great thanks Tony

[Minotaur]

I went along to the meeting as its only a few miles down the road from me

 

Would like to thank WAZ for posting it up and Bruce Rothnie of the Forestry Commission for arranging the meeting.

 

It was interesting and informative, Bruce and his colleagues from FERA gave us a talk about the outbreak at Paddock Wood. Basically, the beetle arrived on site, a small industrial site, in wooden packaging materials from China.

They found the first Beetle there in 2009, and have been monitoring the area yearly since. Unfortunately they have now identified quite a number of trees on site and the localised area - approx 100 metre spread - where it has been identified that eggs have been layed, and larva are eating the trees and at least 1 full grown beetle has been found - think thats right.

 

We were shown some parts of trees with Beetle dmage and then walked around site looking at various trees, again damaged by egg laying, larva galleries and Beetle exit holes approx 9-11mm in diameter and almost perfectly circular - I for one was enthralled.

 

They made it clear that if you find a beetle, or suspect a tree or trees, are infested/infected then to call the following number:

 

0844 2840071 - immediately

 

The only two options for destruction are to chip any infected wood, it must be chipped smalled than 2.5cm sq, or to burn the wood on site.

But please make sure you contact the above phone number before destroying any wood or removing from site.

 

Make no mistake this Beetle is on the UN's 5 most dangerous creatures to trees and plants, in the WORLD!

 

Link to the other post with some photos: http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-health-care/42548-asian-longhorn-beetle.html

 

Hope that helps anyone who couldn't make the meeting.