EAB Community Action Monitoring and Reporting

1. David Cappaert, Michigan State University, bugwood.org • EAB Community Action • Monitoring and Reporting

2. What can you do to help Ash Trees and Slow the Spread of EAB? • Don’t Move Firewood • Collect Ash Tree Seed • Serve on a Community Preparedness Planning Committee • Serve on an EAB Task Force • Help Conduct Community Tree Inventories • Monitor for EAB • Report Suspicious Sightings • Educate Yourself and Your Friends and Neighbors

3. 1) Don’t Move Firewood NYS Law- you cannot move firewood more than 50 miles from its source. Burn it where you buy it. Full details at the DEC web site: http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/28722.html This is not just for Emerald Ash Borer, but also things like Asian Longhored Beetle, Gypsy Moth, Oak Wilt and more. Check out more at: http://www.dontmovefirewood.org/

4. 2) Collect Ash Seed Save germoplasm for future ash generations! Make it Count: Select the Best Trees • Wild populations • Magnificent individuals Document the parent tree: • GPS • Site and forest information • http://www.ashseed.org James Solomon, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org

5. 3) Community Preparedness Planning Volunteer to help your community develop an Emerald Ash Borer Community Preparedness Plan. • Preparedness Plans are designed to answer management, liability, legal and budget questions before there is an emergency situation. • EAB can have a large impact very quickly • Dead ash trees in community locations is a public safety concern

6. Plan Elements • Background – description of the community and EAB’s potential impact • Management Plan - outline of specific management actions for specific trees, and who will implement the actions • Education Plan – identifies stakeholders and how they relate to EAB and outlines their educational needs • Budget - what will management cost and how it will be paid for. • Contacts - who is responsible for the plan and its implementation • Sources of Information – EAB references for planners and stakeholders

7. How you can help with the Plan • Be part of the committee that develops the plan • Research ordinances and local laws • Educate community members • Assist with inventory completion/ updating • Write grants/look for funding • Help with replanting efforts

8. Plan Materials • The Emerald Ash Borer Community Preparedness Plan Development Workbook can be found at http://nyis.info • Sample NY Plans can also be found there. (coming soon) • Sample Plans from around the country can be found at http://www.emeraldashborer.info.

9. 4) EAB Task Force Participation Serve on an EAB Task Force Task Forces look at regional/multi-communities needs such as: • Shared Resources (staff, equipment) • Ash wood marketing/utilization • Community Education • Inter-municipal coordination Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources - Forestry Archive, Bugwood.org

10. 5) Volunteer Inventory Help take stock and assess ash trees on streets, in parks and in public places (or in private yards) • Basic Inventory Skills • Ash Tree ID • Tree measurements • GPS Usage (optional) • Advanced Skills • Some tree health/structural problem identification training David Cappaert, Michigan State University, Bugwood.org

11. Inventory Tools • I-Tree Tools- I-Streets inventory program • http://www.itreetools.org/ • Freeware developed by the USDA Forest Service and other partners. • Will be a fit for most inventory projects. • Work with a consulting arborist to develop your own inventory system based on local needs

12. 6) and 7) Monitor and Report Monitoring helps: • Identify newly infested areas • Identify where EAB is not Knowing where EAB is and its rate of spread has impacts on response levels and the use of insecticides and other management tactics.

13. 6) Monitoring The basic steps: 1) Learn the signs and symptoms of EAB 2) Learn to identify ash trees David R. McKay, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org Michigan Department of Agriculture, Bugwood.org

14. Monitoring 3) Decide on the parameters of the local monitoring system. • Assign volunteers to areas • Develop reporting protocol Survey methods for monitoring can be found at http://beetledetectives.com and http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/72136.html Michigan Department of Agriculture, Bugwood.org

15. Visual Inspection • Canopy thinning • Bark splitting • Woodpecker foraging • Epicormic sprouting • Biosurveillance • Native predatory wasp • Trapping • Purple Prism Traps (PPT) • Baited with chemical lure • Trap tree • With Purple Prism Trap EAB Survey Techniques Toby Petrice, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org David Cappaert, Michigan State University, Bugwood.org

16. Ground Nesting Predatory Wasp, Cercerisfumipennis • The wasp provisions her nest with beetles and is an efficient forager. • Go to: http://www.cerceris.info/ for complete information Biosurveillance

17. Trap Trees/ Sentential Trees A much more effect way to attract EAB is to deliberately girdle ash trees. EAB is attracted to chemicals released by stressed ash trees. At the end of the season, the tree is cut down, and the bark peeled off.

18. Finding EAB in a Trap Tree

19. Hybrid Traps Combination purple prism traps and girdling is being used to increase the chances of trapping Emerald Ash Borer in an area. In some cases insecticides are also added to kill EAB that feed on the tree.

20. EAB Prism Traps Purple Prism Traps are plastic traps painted with a lure and a sticky substance. Not very effective, and only available through APHIS.

21. 7) Reporting Sample Identification Confirming the Identity of an Emerald Ash Borer or suspected trees contact: • Your local CCE office: http://www.cce.cornell.edu • Call the DEC EAB and Firewood Hotline 1-866-640-0652 Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources - Forestry Archive, Bugwood.org Marianne Prue, Ohio Department of Natural Resources - Division of Forestry, Bugwood.org

22. Reporting Both the NYSDEC and USDA APHIS have monitoring and reporting tools DEC: http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/72136.html EAB Detection Fact Sheet and On-Line Survey Form • Includes step-by-step monitoring instructions APHIS: http://beetledetectives.com/ EAB and Asian Longhorned Beetle Fact Sheets and On-Line Monitoring Form

23. 8) Educate yourself and others Go to CORNELL UNIVERSITY’S INVASIVE SPECIES WEB SITE for complete up to date Emerald Ash Borer information: http://nyis.info TALK to your local Cornell Cooperative Extension educators, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation foresters and NYS Agriculture and Markets inspectors.

24. Educational Web Sites • CCE New York Invasive Species Information Web Site: nyis.info • NYS Department of Environmental Conservation: www.dec.ny.gov • NYS Agriculture and Markets: www.agmkt.state.ny.us/PI/eab.html • Emerald Ash Borer: http://www.emeraldashborer.info

25. Credits • Presentation prepared by • Rebecca Hargrave, Horticulture and Natural Resources Extension Educator, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chenango County, jrh45@cornell.edu, and • Mark Whitmore, Forest Entomologist with Cornell University Department of Natural Resources mcw42@cornell.edu • Funded by USDA/APHIS andCornell University April 27, 2011