EMERALD ASH BORER DETECTED IN NJ

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(TRENTON) - New Jersey Department of Agriculture officials today confirmed that the emerald ash borer (EAB), an invasive beetle that attacks and kills ash trees, has been found in Somerset County.A landscaper investigating unhealthy trees in a retail area in Bridgewater last week alerted the Department. Inspectors took samples and insect larvae were sent to the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Systematic Entomology Laboratory where the specimenswere confirmed.For the past four years the Departments of Agriculture and Environmental Protection (NJDA and DEP) have participated in an Emerald ash borer survey but none of the beetles were found in the more than 300 traps set up around the state. Emerald ash borer had already been detected in Pennsylvania and New York counties bordering New Jersey.