[MAIPC] Fwd: Another wood-boring beetle

[phytodoer at aol.com]

I have read the full article announcing the detection.  As far as scientists know at this time, based on observations in North America and China, the insect attacks Ailanthus.  Of course, no one has done host specificity testing.  The Agrilus has been detected in Pennsylvania (as a by-catch in the spotted lanternfly eradication program) and in Connecticut (found among the Agrilus beetles caught by the native wasp Cerceris fumipennis) as well as in EAB traps in New Jersey ...
 
Faith Campbell
 
In a message dated 11/2/2017 6:25:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, jilswearingen at gmail.com writes:
 
Hi,
 
Looks like we might have another friend in a natural enemy against one of our priority invasive plants already in the mid-Atlantic! Let's hope it is specific to tree of heaven. 
 
Thank you,
 
Jil
 
.......................
Jil Swearingen
Invasive Species Consultant
In the Weeds
 
 

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From: Cleary, Ruark<Ruark.Cleary at myfwc.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 11:15 AM
Subject: Another wood-boring beetle
To: NECIS at lists.nationalwildlife.org


A “specialist” on tree-of-heaven, but I could not find information on whether it is host-specific.
 

New Wood Boring Beetle Attacks Tree-of-heaven
Posted: 30 Oct 2017 06:17 AM PDT
First North American Records of the Eastasian Metallic Wood-
 Boring Beetle Agrilus smaragdifrons Ganglbauer (Coleoptera:
 Buprestidae: Agrilinae), a Specialist on Tree of Heaven
 (Ailanthus altissima, Simaroubaceae)Abstract.—The East Asian buprestid Agrilus smaragdifrons Ganglbauer is reported for the first time in the Western Hemisphere. Specimens of this species taken from emerald ash borer (A. planipennis Fairmaire) monitoring traps in New Jersey in 2015–2016 suggest establishment of this metallic wood-boring beetle in the northeastern United States. The earliest known record of A. smaragdifrons in the U.S. is based on a verifiable image found on BugGuide, from a specimen collected in Hudson County, New Jersey in June 2011. Diagnostic information and high-resolution images of the of this adventive buprestid from other North American Agrilus. A summary of information about the host plant (Ailanthus altissima), native distribution, and biology are given, and all known North American records are listed and mapped.Authors: E. RICHARD HOEBEKE, EDUARD JENDEK, JAMES E. ZABLOTNY, RYAN RIEDER, ROSA YOO, VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV, AND LILY REN
Taken from www.BioOne.org 
Published by: Entomological Society of Washington 
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