How to Use emerald ash borer in a Sentence

emerald ash borer

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  • His final 20-foot piece will feature oversized leaves of trees native to Mount Airy as well as an emerald ash borer, in homage to the tree’s death.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Everett said basket makers alerted regional leaders to the emerald ash borer's devastating impact on black ash trees.
    — Gaby Vinick, ABC News, 13 May 2024
  • The killer is a shiny green insect from Asia called the emerald ash borer.
    — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 14 June 2018
  • The emerald ash borer has destroyed tens of millions of trees in the U.S. and Canada.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022
  • Thanks for your question and for keeping an eye out for the emerald ash borer.
    — Kym Pokorny, oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The despised ash trees had to be cut down as the emerald ash borer laid waste to the cultivar across the Midwest.
    — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 28 June 2018
  • Some cities and towns are cutting down the trees to prevent the spread of the emerald ash borer and eliminate the cost of treatment.
    — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 23 Nov. 2021
  • And other threats, like Dutch elm disease and the emerald ash borer, also plague the forests.
    — Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • McNee said one of the main ways emerald ash borer spreads is on firewood.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The emerald ash borer has destroyed tens of millions of trees in the United States and Canada.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2022
  • Not every dying ash tree is the result of the emerald ash borer.
    — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Wierema said with the emerald ash borer beetle, when the signs of stress appear there is little to be done to help the tree.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
  • An insect, the emerald ash borer, killed ash trees there, and storms have caused trees to fall into the river from time to time.
    — Tim Zorn, Chicago Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Hundreds of ash have toppled over in these woods because of the emerald ash borer.
    — Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Kristian Thacker, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
  • The emerald ash borer, radiant and misplaced, has killed all the ash, so what to do but fell it and watch its bark fall off like meat from the bone.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
  • The emerald ash borer was first found in Michigan in 2002 and has spread to dozens of states and four Canadian provinces.
    — USA TODAY, 11 July 2019
  • Oak wilt and the emerald ash borer continue to spread farther across the state, leaving dead oak and ash in their wake.
    — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
  • The emerald ash borer started showing up in the state in 2012 and has now spread across Connecticut.
    — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • In recent years, researchers have released wasps in forests in 30 states where the emerald ash borer is present.
    — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The emerald ash borer is a beetle that came to the area on shipping crates from foreign countries, Scott said.
    — Mary McIntyre, Lake County News-Sun, 14 June 2019
  • Avoid any kind of ash, which will be vulnerable to the emerald ash borer.
    — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The progress of two invasive insects, the emerald ash borer, and the hemlock wooly adelgid, could be paused across the midwest by the freeze.
    — Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Broomfield has confirmed emerald ash borer in the city even though foresters have tried to prevent its spread.
    — Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The center aims to fight the state’s worst invaders, from emerald ash borer beetles to buckthorn.
    — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Native to Asia, the emerald ash borer first appeared in Michigan in 2002.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The fungi follows the emerald ash borer into trees through the wounds the beetle creates.
    — Star Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The emerald ash borer is also threatening green ash trees, one of the more abundant species in the floodplain.
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2022
  • Then the emerald ash borer, a shiny green invasive insect, came to town.
    — Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 14 June 2018
  • The emerald ash borer is a wood-boring beetle native to Asia.
    — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • An iridescent green beetle called the emerald ash borer has laid waste to ash trees.
    — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 14 Aug. 2021

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