<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thank you,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Jil</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">.......................</div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Jil Swearingen</div><div>Invasive Species Consultant</div><div><i>In the Weeds</i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Cleary, Ruark</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Ruark.Cleary@myfwc.com">Ruark.Cleary@myfwc.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 11:15 AM<br>Subject: Another wood-boring beetle<br>To: <a href="mailto:NECIS@lists.nationalwildlife.org">NECIS@lists.nationalwildlife.org</a><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A “specialist” on tree-of-heaven, but I could not find information on whether it is host-specific.<u></u><u></u></p>
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Wood Boring Beetle Attacks Tree-of-heaven</span></b></span><span></span></a>
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<h4 style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">First North American Records of the Eastasian Metallic Wood-<br>
Boring Beetle Agrilus smaragdifrons Ganglbauer (Coleoptera:<br>
Buprestidae: Agrilinae), a Specialist on Tree of Heaven<br>
(Ailanthus altissima, Simaroubaceae)<u></u><u></u></span></h4>
<h4 style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">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.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></h4>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Authors: E. RICHARD HOEBEKE, EDUARD JENDEK, JAMES E. ZABLOTNY, RYAN RIEDER, ROSA YOO, VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV, AND LILY REN<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Published by: Entomological Society of Washington</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></h4>
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