Asian longhorn beetle Part 2

[Warren Stirling]

Rise of the Chinese beetle that could wipe out our woodlands: Asian longhorn species spotted in south of England | Mail Online

 

Heard a snippet of a report on the news the other morning so had a search and found this. Anybody else heard anything from any organisations?

 

Warren

[Gary Prentice]

Thanks for posting. At the P&D seminar a few months back the FC were quietly confident that the first Sheffield outbreak was contained, in that three years had passed with no further sightings.

 

Paddock Wood was thought to be 'probably containable'. New outbreaks aren't good, it's cost the States billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of trees so far.

 

Edit; this may be a bit of scaremongering and making news for the sake of making news;http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/environment/10583868.Be_on_the_lookout_for_tree_damaging_beetles/

 

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10634555.Deadly_Chinese_beetle_threatening_Sussex_woodland/

 

All three stories are similar, with the same quotes, hopefully the Mail has just exaggerated the other stories

Edited August 29, 2013 by Gary Prentice

[ben_inthewoods]

+1 many thanks for the heads up. We all need to be pro active in calling in pathogen sightings like this.