Meaning of emerald ash borer | Babel Free

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Agrilus planipennis, a green beetle native to Asia and a significant pest of ash trees in Europe and North America.

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“The emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmair (formerly A. marcopoli Obenberger), is native to China, Japan, Korea, and Mongolia.”

“Already, the Emerald ash borer has killed over 1,000 ash trees in five countries around Detroit, Michigan.”

“Then there was the emerald ash borer, an insect that–as a recent editorial in the Washington Post put it–"could do to Eastern ash trees what an Asian blight did to chestnuts in the first half of the last century–wipe them out."”

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