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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Who will do the research?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> phytodoer@aol.com <phytodoer@aol.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 05, 2020 12:46 PM<br><b>To:</b> ialm@erols.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [MAIPC] New Wood Boring Beetle Attacks Tree-of-heaven<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Marc,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>I think it means that the entomologists who identified the beetle think it focuses on - if not completely limited to - Ailanthus. Obviously, we need biocontrol for Ailanthus! Whether anyone is pursuing this as a possibility, I don't know. Since it is already in the country, first step would be to find out how widespread it is and what impact it is having. Since it is already in country, I think APHIS would not have authority to regulate it.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Faith<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>In a message dated 1/4/2020 6:19:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, <a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com">ialm@erols.com</a> writes: <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div id=yiv9647941052><div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><strong><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>H Faith,</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><strong><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><strong><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>What does “a Specialist on Tree of Heaven” mean? Is it thus a potential biocontrol to spread if we do </span></strong><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>a biocontrol host specificity test?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal>Marc<o:p></o:p></p><div id=yiv9647941052yqt03796><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></strong> <a href="mailto:phytodoer@aol.com" target="_blank">phytodoer@aol.com</a> <<a href="mailto:phytodoer@aol.com">phytodoer@aol.com</a>> <br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Sent:</span></strong> Saturday, January 04, 2020 11:14 AM<br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>To:</span></strong> <a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com" target="_blank">ialm@erols.com</a><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Subject:</span></strong> Re: [MAIPC] New Wood Boring Beetle Attacks Tree-of-heaven<o:p></o:p></p><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Marc,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>the beetle got here accidentally so it has not been through a biocontrol host specificity test. Are the authors suggesting that it be deliberately spread?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Faith</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal>In a message dated 1/4/2020 11:01:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, <a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com" target="_blank">ialm@erols.com</a> writes:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div id=yiv9647941052><div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt'> Still, no proper host-specificity test has yet been conducted on the beetle.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div id=yiv9647941052yqt19870><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></strong> <a href="mailto:phytodoer@aol.com" target="_blank">phytodoer@aol.com</a> <<a href="mailto:phytodoer@aol.com" target="_blank">phytodoer@aol.com</a>> <br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Sent:</span></strong> Saturday, January 04, 2020 10:55 AM<br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>To:</span></strong> <a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com" target="_blank">ialm@erols.com</a><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Cc:</span></strong> <a href="mailto:INVASIVES@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU" target="_blank">INVASIVES@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU</a>; <a href="mailto:maipc@lists.maipc.org" target="_blank">maipc@lists.maipc.org</a><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Subject:</span></strong> Re: [MAIPC] New Wood Boring Beetle Attacks Tree-of-heaven<o:p></o:p></p><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Marc & others,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>notice that the insect was first detected in 2011, described by Rick Hoebeke and others in 2016 or so. I blogged about it in November 2017 - see link.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="http://nivemnic.us/new-woodborer-detected-importance-of-surveillance-by-catch/" target="_blank">http://nivemnic.us/new-woodborer-detected-importance-of-surveillance-by-catch/</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I really don't understand why Entomological Society is treating it as a headline-worthy matter now.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>???</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Faith Campbell</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal>In a message dated 1/3/2020 9:40:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, <a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com" target="_blank">ialm@erols.com</a> writes:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div id=yiv9647941052><div><div><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Monday, October 30, 2017</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="https://bugwood.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">https://bugwood.blogspot.com/</a></span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>First North American Records of the Eastasian Metallic Wood-</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Boring Beetle Agrilus smaragdifrons Ganglbauer (Coleoptera:</span></strong><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Buprestidae: Agrilinae), a Specialist on Tree of Heaven</span></strong><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>(Ailanthus altissima, Simaroubaceae)</span></strong></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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><o:p></o:p></p><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal>Authors: E. RICHARD HOEBEKE, EDUARD JENDEK, JAMES E. ZABLOTNY, RYAN RIEDER, ROSA YOO, VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV, AND LILY REN<o:p></o:p></p><p class=yiv9647941052msonormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Taken from <a href="http://www.BioOne.org" target="_blank">www.BioOne.org</a> <b><br></b>Published by: Entomological Society of Washington</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>