Search for Asian Longhorned Beetle continues in Brooklyn streets and yards
Half the Trees in NYC Vulnerable
Teams of agriculture inspectors wearing yellow hard hats can been seen measuring trees and peering through binoculars at leafy canopies on the streets and in the yards of Brooklyn this week as part of the ongoing battle against a devastating pest called Asian Longhorned Beetle
“We’re coming to do a triple check just to make sure we’ve eradicated the areas. It’s on 11 species of trees, including London planetrees,” an inspector from Davey Resource Group, contacted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to carry out inspections, told the Brooklyn Eagle on Monday. The team was working its way along Cadman Plaza West in Brooklyn Heights.
The insects also attack maple, horsechestnut, elm, willow, birch, poplar and ash trees.