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A Capital Adventure
2006 ARS / ASA Joint Convention

Mr. Stanton Gill
Friday Evening Speaker

Stanton Gill

Keeping out the “Bad Boy Pests”

Maryland has experienced a plethora of exotic pests over the years but none have the potential for destruction as the tiny green colored beetle called the emerald ash borer and the black and white beetle called the Asian longhorned beetle. The Emerald ash borer beetle can devastate ash trees in Maryland in as short a time period as one season. Ash trees are an important forest tree in Maryland and green ash are planted extensively in Maryland landscapes. If this pest become well establish in Maryland many landscapes will be ravaged and the forest dramatically changed forever. This pest was accidentally introduced into Michigan 5 –6 years ago and expanded it range into the southern part of Canada and into Ohio. It was introduced into Maryland and Northern Virginia in 2003. The Asian longhorned borer is deadly tree pest of maple, London Plane, birch and many other hardwoods. This beetle has been found in 2004 in southern New Jersey. We may have to soon deal with this devastating tree borer. Learn what you can do about these two major tree pests. The lecturer will also cover new low-risk pesticides for use in an IPM approach for dealing with azalea pests.

Biographical

Stanton Gill is a Regional Specialist with the Central Maryland Research and Education Center (CMREC). He is a tenured Professor with the University of Maryland and Professor of Landscape Technology with Montgomery College.
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