Pest Inventory Software Could stop 'Terrorist' Invasions

摘要

Okay, you couldn't compare them to the Department of Homeland Security or the X-Men, but these tree people are working toward securing the nation against foreign invaders. Sure, the invaders are usually six-legged rather than two-legged, but they areevery bit as dangerous to the economic and aesthetic life of the United States as the human variety. Tree pests, sometimes domestic but often foreign, have the potential to wreak havoc on urban and rural tree species. They currently go by exotic names such as emerald ash borer and Asian longhorn beetle, but in the past they have also come in the form of infections such as Dutch elm disease and sudden oak death. They are organisms that can virtually destroy entire regions or species of trees before cityforesters and arborists become aware that they are a formidable foe.