Ash baskets, similar to the one seen above, are made using fibres from black and white ash trees. "We focused our surveillance in those portions of the province where the [emerald ash borer] is not known to occur," Neville said about this summer's monitoring program. The City of Fredericton, for instance, has been inoculating some ash trees against the emerald ash borer by injecting the trees with a pesticide known as TreeAzin. The wasps, which are harmless to humans, feed on the eggs and the larvae of the emerald ash borer. Despite those efforts, Neville said, there isn't a silver bullet for getting rid of the emerald ash borer, and for now, those measures only slow the spread.

Source: CBC News July 18, 2021 09:56 UTC