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Thousands Of Ash Trees Destroyed To Kill Beetles

(WJZ) The first of 25,000 ash trees is being reduced to mulch in Prince George's County--all to destroy something so small, it takes a knife's edge to arrange: the white larvae and dark green adult of the emerald ash borer beetle.

"We are taking down all of the ash trees and destroying ash trees within one and a half mile radius of any known infested trees in Prince George's County," said Carol Holko, Maryland Department of Agriculture.

Infestations that go unseen beneath the bark, where ash borers destroy a tree's circulation and kill it.

Ash trees inside an 11,000 acre quarantine zone are being taken out after the beetle, native to Asia, arrived here in a shipment of nursery trees from Michigan. If not stopped here, it could spread like an invisible wildfire.

And there is only this winter to stop it. Come April, adult ash borers not destroyed will sprout wings and spread.

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