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Re: TT: Tree Quarantine in New York



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Kathie Grace Schreibman wrote:.
> 
> But as pest control goes, no one wants to let anything out of the city(if
> it can be contained to Long Island it will literally have to cross a
> bridge or hitch a ride on a ferry to get to the mainland).  I haven't
> heard of any cases in the Bronx (the only part of the city
> physically connected to the rest of the US.
> 
> As I ramble, I would tend to think that the bigger containment problem
> comes from Long Island where there are largeish farms (including tree
> farms).  I can't think of any nurseries except ones that the parks
> department runs anywhere in the city (maybe Staten Island has a couple).
> 
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> > APHIS, the health inspection service of the USDA, is preparing to quarantine the movement of trees and tree parts in the New York City area, in an effort to control the spread of the Asian longhorn beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis Motschulsky.
> >

Hmm, long horn beetles can hitch a ride in fire wood one is taking to
grandmas house, or on a barge of trimmings,  lawn man takes some maple
home to the fire place. Containment can be very difficult.

-- 
Don Staples

My Ego Stroke:  http://www.livingston.net/dstaples/

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