{"id":416933,"date":"2025-12-01T09:45:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/416933\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:45:32","slug":"invasive-emerald-ash-borer-spreading-rapidly-across-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/416933\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasive\u00a0emerald ash borer spreading rapidly across Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The invasive emerald ash borer continues to spread rapidly across\u00a0Maine, with 44 new towns<\/a>\u00a0added to the list of confirmed detections so far this year, compared to 14 new towns last year.<\/p>\n

Maine Forest Service entomologist Mike Parisio said much of that expansion took place in Oxford County, but that several so-called \u201csatellite infestations\u201d were reported in Bar Harbor, Belfast and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo all these random points pop up, you know, new towns that don\u2019t necessarily appear to be connected to things we\u2019re well aware of,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Parisio said the increase in reporting could be due to a combination of exponential population growth and greater public awareness. And he encouraged Mainers to keep an eye out for dead trees in their area this winter.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook for those trees that are getting attacked by woodpeckers, you know, especially seeing all that bark that\u2019s been knocked off accumulating on fresh snow below those trees,\u201d he said. \u201cThose are dead giveaways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suspected emerald ash borer sightings can be reported through the Maine Forest Service website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Parisio\u00a0said the department is also ramping up preservation efforts, such as releasing wasps that attack the emerald ash borer, saving ash tree seeds and applying insecticides to certain groves in the hope that they could outlast the infestation.<\/p>\n

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