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Arborjet kicked off the Million Tree Challenge to help save one million American trees.

 Arborjet, a company that develops remedies for some of the world's most destructive tree insects and diseases, invites municipalities and homeowners from coast to coast to join together this Arbor Day to become part of the "Million Tree Challenge™" and help save one million American trees. 

The arrival of the destructive emerald ash borer in New Hampshire is bad news for the ash trees in our forests, maybe even fatal news, but one company says it's still feasible to save ash trees in our yards and cities. 

Tracking the wild mustard and other invasive plants, garlic mustard, phragmites and emerald ash borer are all invasive species that cause ecosystem changes and cost homeowners and taxpayers money. 

The arrival of spring signals the start of another year where area communities must spend more money and manpower to combat ash tree damage caused by the emerald ash borer.

Emerald Ash Borer, familiar to the Midwest, has been confirmed in New Hampshire, according to state officials. A tree in Concord was discovered to be a host for EAB, and now the state is under quarantine for moving firewood.

Arborjet kicked off the Million Tree Challenge to help save one million American trees. 

Arborjet's Upper Midwest Regional Technical Manager Jeff Palmer spoke to Quincy, IL's City Council regarding treatment planning for Emerald Ash Borer.

Invasive species are taking over towns, and one conference in western Wisconsin is addressing the issue hands on. The Upper Midwest Invasive Species Conference in La Crosse is doing more than the typical sit and listen lectures. They are sending attendees on field trips to learn about different types of invasive species. Arborjet's Jeff Palmer was on hand to educate field trip attendees about Emerald Ash Borer.

Arborjet's Dawn Fluharty was recently in Denver, CO, where she discussed the formulation selected by the city to treat pine trees for pine bark beetle.

Chicago is urged to spend nearly $1.4 million to treat infected ash trees or risk losing almost 100,000 trees.

Chicago risks losing all 91,000 of its parkway trees unless it steps up treatment for the tree-killing emerald ash borer, aldermen were warned Monday

A large-scale treatment of ash trees to protect against the emerald ash borer started Wednesday in Arlington Heights’ Northgate neighborhood.
Sunrise Tree Care will inject TREE-age insecticide into 448 of the neighborhood’s 698 parkway trees over 10 days.

It has been nearly 10 years since the emerald ash borer (EAB) was first discovered killing ash trees in southeastern Michigan. Knowledge gained since the discovery has been quite amazing.

If you learn the who, what, where, when, why, and how of the simple service of injecting and/or infusing insecticides, fungicides, and growth-and-health agents directly into your customer’s trees’ trunks, you’ll be well on the way to being more profitable and you will be distinguishing yourself from your competition.

With spring having sprung, it will only be a matter of time before many area residents who have ash trees will find out if their trees will be added to the rapidly growing list of victims of the notorious emerald ash borer.

Arlington Heights village officials agreed to split the cost of treating parkway ash trees, but likely just once once. The board agreed to fund a program that would reimburse residents up to $50 for treating their ash trees with the village’s preferred method, injection of Tree-Age, which costs about $100 per tree, depending on size. The village will pay for only one treatment and residents would have to continue treatment every two years after that.

Arlington Hts. residents may soon request $50 from the village to help combat emerald ash borer. The village board gave unanimous preliminary approval to a cost-sharing program Monday night, Apr. 9 that would allow residents to apply for 50% up to $50 for treating ash trees on public parkways. The program would be for a one-time treatment within the next two years and have a sunset date of Oct. 31, 2013. It will also work retroactively for those who have already paid to treat their trees. The village board must still approve the program at an upcoming regular meeting.

Arlington Heights. residents may soon request $50 from the village to help combat emerald ash borer. The village board gave unanimous preliminary approval to a cost-sharing program Monday night, Apr. 9 that would allow residents to apply for 50% up to $50 for treating ash trees on public parkways.

The City of Naperville continues to implement an aggressive multi-year treatment plan for all healthy ash trees located in the City’s parkways to reduce the devastating effect of the emerald ash borer (EAB) in the community. If the City does not treat any of the parkway ash trees, it is expected that all of the ash trees will be dead within five years. Licensed contractors will be utilizing three types of treatments for the City’s estimated 16,300 parkway trees.

The City of Naperville continues to implement an aggressive multi-year treatment plan for all healthy ash trees located in the City’s parkways to reduce the devastating effect of the emerald ash borer (EAB) in the community.

Evanston officials report that the invasive Emerald Ash Borer is rapidly spreading through the city’s ash trees, forcing forestry workers to remove infected trees. However, the need to remove parkway ash trees has outpaced the funds required to replace them, city officials said, adding that nearly 500 parkway ash trees have been removed in the past year.

Lake in the Hills residents may soon notice small index cards hanging from some parkway trees. The cards, which will be be tagged to sick ash trees, are meant to inform residents about the tree’s current condition, said Scott Parchutz, superintendent of public properties for the village of Lake in the Hills. “There are about one thousand ash trees that are dead or declining in the village,” Parchutz said. “Basically, all the ash trees in the village will have to be replaced. The whole state is under siege by the emerald ash borer.”

I know what you are thinking: “Another article on emerald ash borer? C’mon!”. No doubt, emerald ash borer (EAB) has set a new bar in terms of media interest and coverage for an urban forestry issue, and, as it continues to spread to new communities each year, that media buzz is not likely to die out anytime soon. Although the media has been successful with getting a message out to the public about EAB, exactly what message has been reaching the public can hurt as much or more than it can help.

Evanston officials report that the invasive emerald ash borer is rapidly spreading through the city's parkway ash trees, forcing forestry workers to remove infected trees. But the need to remove the trees has outpaced the funds required to replace them, city officials said, adding that nearly 500 parkway ash trees have been removed in the past year.

Evanston officials report that the invasive emerald ash borer is rapidly spreading through the city's parkway ash trees, forcing forestry workers to remove infected trees.But the need to remove the trees has outpaced the funds required to replace them.

Evanston officials report that the invasive Emerald Ash Borer is rapidly spreading through the city’s ash trees, forcing forestry
workers to remove infected trees.

The City Council Finance Committee today urged the city to spend another $1.4 million a year to help protect ash trees from a notorious invasive beetle known for destroying the common shade tree.

Kudos to the Village of Gurnee for deciding to treat its ash trees to fight emerald ash borer, rather than cut them down ("Gurnee decides to treat, rather than remove, infected ashes", News, March 20). The approach, coupled with strategic removal when necessary, is cheaper and more effective in halting spread of the beetle and its destruction.

Kudos to the Village of Gurnee for deciding to treat its ash trees to fight emerald ash borer, rather than cut them down.

When they learned last year that a deadly pest had infested Gurnee's ash trees, officials looked at the bottom line and decided treatment was not only a viable option but also the most cost-effective. The emerald ash borer beetles had likely been in Gurnee five or six years before January 2011, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture officially informed the village it was infested, said Jake Balmes, streets supervisor.

If the village had followed the lead of other municipalities removed infested ash trees,they would have spend between $1.2 million and $1.5 million.Instead, the village spent about $30,000 treating about 3,000 ash trees with a chemical containing emamectin benzoate. The product, TREE-age, is manufactured by Massachusetts-based Arborjet.

Despite the quality information that is out there on EAB, it is undermined by a troubling accumulation of myths, misconceptions, distortions, and half-truths.

Earlier this month, the Winona City Council decided to use the chemical insecticide TREE-age to treat and inoculate select trees against the emerald ash borer as part of the city’s management plan for public ash trees. Here are some TREE-age facts:

Earlier this month, the Winona City Council decided to use the chemical insecticide TREE-age to treat and inoculate select trees against the emerald ash borer as part of the city’s management plan for public ash trees. Here are some TREE-age facts

Detroit in 2005 was a sobering sight. Ash tree skeletons were everywhere. The ash borer has now arrived in our midst in southeastern
Pennsylvania.

Detroit in 2005 was a sobering sight. Ash tree skeletons were everywhere. The Inquirer had sent me there to write about the emerald ash borer, an insect that was killing every ash it got to, and was spreading fast. Officials figured it would make its way to Pennsylvania at some point, and the paper wanted me to find out what lay ahead.

Kurt Meyer and his wife were riding bikes last year through an area of St. Charles, near Aurora, Ill., when they encountered about 15 dead ash trees alongside two that were perfectly healthy. As an owner of Meyer Landscape & Design in Moline, Meyer recognized that the dead trees had been infested with emerald ash borer, or EAB, an invasive insect that kills ash trees, and that the two healthy ones had been treated with a preventative chemical.

The city of Davenport is taking an aggressive approach to the emerald ash borer threat, contracting for an inventory of public right-of-way trees to determine what kinds the city has —not just ash — and what condition they are in.

An infestation of the emerald ash borer was discovered during November in Stark County, Ill., about 50 miles southeast of the Quad-Cities.

Naperville City Council this week unanimously approved spending $467,436 to contain the damage from the Emerald Ash Borer, but not without some serious reservations. “If we are going to treat a tree, I want to do it right,” Councilman Paul Hinterlong said after questioning the treatments for some of the city’s 16,300 parkway ash trees.

The city council resumed talks about potential insecticides Monday and came to a unanimous decision on the type of chemical that will be used to combat the spread of the Emerald Ash Borer: TREE-age. After consulting with a Michigan State University insecticide expert, Mayor Jerry Miller is confident in the success of the treatment option.

The city council resumed talks about potential insecticides Monday and came to a unanimous decision on the type of chemical that will be used to combat the spread of the Emerald Ash Borer: TREE-age.

The Care of Trees will treat trees with two different types of soil drench at a price of $174,800. Kinnican Company was awarded $292,625 to treat trees by directly injecting chemicals into the tree, using a process
called TREE-age.

Arborjet, a company focused on developing "effective and environmentally sound formulations and equipment" for combating the emerald ash borer, Asian long-horned beetle and other tree-killing insects, claims its products helped save some 350,000 trees in the United States last year.

Arborjet, a company focused on developing "effective and environmentally sound formulations and equipment" for combating the emerald ash borer, Asian long-horned beetle and other tree-killing insects, claims its products helped save some 350,000 trees in the United States last year.

The city of Davenport is taking an aggressive approach to the emerald ash borer threat, contracting for an inventory of public right-of-way trees to determine what kinds the city has — not just ash — and what condition they are in, said Chris Johnson, the city arborist/forestry manager. The best guess is there are about 5,000 ash among the city’s approximately 23,000 public right-of-way trees, he said.

Innovative Tree Treatments Save the U.S. Economy Over $252 Million, and Hundreds of Thousands of Trees, in 2011

The newly arrived Rugose Spiraling White Fly is being described in Southern Florida as a "nightmare" and for good reason.

The city of Winona will spend $80,000 to chemically treat and inoculate up to 4,000 of the city’s ash trees against the emerald ash borer. Earlier this week public works staff presented findings and recommendations on Pointer and TREE-age, insecticides that have been found effective in inoculating ash trees against the destructive ash borer making its way toward Winona.

Ash trees are popular and attractive street trees and very common in municipal parks, on college grounds, and on residential and commercial landscapes. They're valued for their shade-producing canopy, medium height, sturdy trunks and, in several popular species, attractive fall color. All of this is being lost.

Bartlett resident Amy Zinga this summer led the charge in her neighborhood to fend off the emerald ash borer insects that are infesting some area trees.

The emerald ash borer continues to strike fear into the hearts of property owners who value their ash trees, but state agriculture officials and local tree-care companies contend there is a way to combat the tiny pests “Nestor and other tree-service companies now are combating the pest with a variety of insecticide treatments, one of which is called Tree-age.”

Have you noticed a lot of trees losing their leaves earlier than normal this year? Have you already been raking? 
 
It may be due to the cool weather. But there's also a good chance it's due to Emerald Ash Borer devastating trees across the region.

Thousands of Minnesota homeowners may have to decide sooner or later about what strategy to take against the emerald ash borer. WEIGHING STRATEGIES Consider location: If your tree is more than 15 miles from a known infestation, don't worry. In Minnesota, infested trees have been detected in Hennepin, Ramsey, Houston and Winona counties. A map of 2011 detections is at www.startribune.com/a670

Given a death sentence in January, some Ash trees in Allegheny county have been granted a stay of execution. With the help of residents, business, and state and federal government officials, ash trees falling prey to the invasive emerald ash borer might live beyond next year. People donated nearly $30,000 to pay for injections of TREE-age- pronounced triage- to treat 158 of the city's 356,000 ash trees, said Phil Gruska, director of park management and maintenance with the Pittsburgh parks conservatory.

Volunteers will help plant 300 trees in various City of Midland parks to help replace those lost to emerald ash borer damage. Karen Murphy, Midland Public Services director, said 100 volunteers will plant the trees in Emerson, Chippewassee, Stratford and other parks. The Dow Chemical Co. is supporting the project with a $25,000 grant. Murphy said the company approached city staff about ways to help the community respond to the ash borer infestation, which is killing ash trees throughout the city.

Don’t let your revenue come down with the leaves! September until the end of October is the perfect time to treat your clients’ trees to protect against Emerald Ash Borer, Pine Bark Beetles, nutrient deficiencies and fungal diseases via trunk injections.

For insight into tree disease management Arbor Age recently asked Sean Facey, strategic accounts & support services manager at Arborjet, about the tree diseases that industry professionals have been dealing with this year, as well as how to prepare for the months ahead.

The voracious emerald ash borer has yet to be spotted in Shorewood, but the village has already taken steps to kill them when they get here. The sinister emerald ash borer may not have made its way into Shorewood's ash trees yet, but once it does it won't take long for the pest to make its presence felt. "In one short year it's gone from nobody knowing about it to being in your backyard," said Rob Gorden, the national sales director for Arborjet, a company selling anti-emerald ash borer projects.

BARTLETT, Ill. (CBS) — A Bartlett woman is organizing neighbors to join her in trying to save their tree-lined neighborhood from the emerald ash borer. As WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports, Amy Zinga of Bartlett lives on Brookside Drive, a street lined with ash trees. Some are already infested with the ash borer. “These trees will die before they will be treated by the village, so it’s up to the residents if they want to save them,” Zinga said. Zinga is hoping to rally residents to make that happen. “I’m trying,” she said.

As always, the Emerald Ash Borer beetle is causing problems for tree in the Joliet and Will County areas.   Joliet, Shorewood, and Plainfield ash trees are appearing especially vulnerable.  The adult beetles fly to new locations in August, so their territories could be expanding, causing significant damage from now to October.

In as little as a few weeks, the Lower Hudson Valley could welcome its newest invasive pest: the Emerald Ash Borer, a tiny beetle from China that experts say has killed more than 70 million ash trees across the country. The bug was spotted this summer on the campus the of U.S. Military Academy at West Point and is working its way south, experts say.

In as little as a few weeks, the Lower Hudson Valley could welcome its newest invasive pest: the emerald ash borer, a tiny beetle from China that experts say has killed more than 70 million ash trees across the country.

Kevin Vogeler had his eye on a market niche when he started Turf Care Enterprises in 1986. “We focused on a small but growing market that was looking for more natural programs using little or no chemicals,” Vogeler recalls.

The destructive emerald ash borer is edging closer, but city officials say it might not yet be time to treat trees.
 
Found last week in neighboring Shoreview, it was the first reports of the beetle's spread to outlying suburbs of the Twin Cities.

The city will hold an open house from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 3 at the Shoreview Community Center to answer questions related to the recent discovery of the emerald ash borer in the Shamrock Park neighborhood of northwestern Shoreview.

Arborjet’s ACE-jet micro-injectable, broad spectrum “fast acting” insecticide is now available in 32 states. In June it was approved for use in California. ACE-jet targets leaf-chewing insects including caterpillars, winter moth, gypsy moth and webworm; piercing-sucking insects including whiteflies, adelgids, aphids, spider mites, scale, thrips and mealybugs; and mining insects such as leafminers, sawflies and many others.

Arborjet's ACE-jet was featured in Lawn & Landscape;s Top 100 issue as a featured new product.

Now is the time to decide if you want to save ash trees on your property or have them removed.

City forestry crews are making the same decision about thousands ash trees in outlawns across the city as emerald ash borer larvae burrow their way through each tree’s nutrient and water supply system, causing the top branches and eventually the entire tree to die.

Arborjet announced that ACE-jet, a highly effective injectable insecticide, is now available in 32 states. It was just approved for use in California. The insecticide is a micro-injectable, broad spectrum fast acting insecticide used for the management of insects that ravage forests, trees, landscape ornamentals and interior plantscapes.

Arborjet announced that ACE-jet, a highly effective injectable insecticide, is now available in 32 states. It was just approved for use in California. ACE-jet is a micro-injectable, broad spectrum "fast acting" insecticide used for the management of insects that ravage forests, trees, landscape ornamentals and interior plantscapes.

 When it comes to Racine’s ash trees, 2 ounces of prevention is worth at least two years of cure.

Private arborists spent six hours in Racine on Wednesday injecting dozens of ash trees with TREE-äge, an insecticide that kills a beetle called the emerald ash borer, or EAB, for up to two years. The beetle, which has already infested Milwaukee and Kenosha counties, kills ash trees by eating them from the inside out, according to Racine City Forester Matt Koepnick.

Arborjet announced that ACE-jet, a highly effective injectable insecticide, is now available in 32 states. It was just approved for use in California. ACE-jet is a micro-injectable, broad spectrum "fast acting" insecticide used for the management of insects that ravage forests, trees, landscape ornamentals and interior plantscapes. It eliminates leaf-chewing insects including caterpillars, winter moth, gypsy moth, and webworm; piercing-sucking insects including whiteflies, adelgids, aphids, spider mites, scale, thrips and mealybugs; and mining insects such as leafminers, sawflies, and many others.

In Maine, where I lived for more than 50 years, Japanese beetle season was easy to remember . . . because it coincided each year with tourist season. In other words, when the cars came through the toll booths on July 4 weekend, we knew the Japanese beetles would soon be devouring our roses, grapes and, well, you name it.

They can't be stopped. They're tiny and green and very destructive. The emerald ash borer could very well be the most serious threat to American trees since Dutch Elm Disease or chestnut blight.

Gurnee foresters are giving a boost to ash trees with an injection that will help them ward off emerald ash borer larvae that are killing hundreds of trees in town.

Gurnee’s village forester today resumed leading crews injecting chemicals into certain trees in an effort to protect them from the deadly emerald ash borer for about two years. Village board trustees set aside $100,000 in the 2011-12 budget for the initial fight against the pest that invades and kills ash trees. The village has at least 3,347 public parkway ash trees and thousands more on private property.

A series of trunk injection shots will be used in an attempt to save thousands of ash trees in Gurnee, according the village forester.

GURNEE, Ill. (CBS) – Far north suburban Gurnee is taking on the tree-killing emerald ash borer. As WBBM Newsradio 780′s Debra Dale reports, the Village of Gurnee began this week to protect thousands of ash trees with a cutting edge tree trunk injection treatment. Gurnee has more than 3,000 ash trees. At one time, the village was considering removing the ash trees, but opted to save them instead.

Tiny parasitic wasps, Wisconsin's newest weapon in the war against the emerald ash borer, took flight Wednesday in a forest that is under siege from the invasive tree killer.

Arborjet's TREE-äge in April received expanded label approval from the EPA to control several invasive species like Western pine beetle, mountain pine beetle and other associated engraver beetles.

City Begins Defense Against Emerald Ash Borer 2011.05.31 Forestry crews in Rochester are starting to treat more than 4,000 ash trees throughout the city to protect them from a destructive beetle. WXXI

The Cherokee Triangle Association has begun inoculating 24 ash trees in public easements against the deadly disease caused by the Emerald Ash Borer beetle.
Workers from the Bob Ray Co. in Lyndon started the inoculations today by drilling holes at the base of a tree at 2315 Cherokee Parkway. The inserted plugs of an insecticide called Tree-age, which is supposed to be effective for two years to help prevent the disease.

Arborjet has announced that TREE-äge insecticide has received expanded label approval from the EPA to control several invasive species such as Western Pine Beetle, Mountain Pine Beetle and other associated Engraver Beetles. Arborists, landscapers and city officials in cities like Milwaukee and Chicago have used TREE-äge to treat tens of thousands of trees to protect their urban forests against the invasive pest known as Emerald Ash Borer.

The Emerald Ash Borer is a problem in Burr  Ridge.

The EAB beetle is infesting ash trees in the area, essentially starving them. When enough of these one-half-inch long insects are living within an ash tree, they destroy the system that moves nutrients throughout the tree. When enough of them are living within a tree, the bark pulls away from the wood. There may be thousands of bores in one tree.

Landscapers, fruit growers and nursery care professionals now have a new tool in their pest management programs as Arborjet introduces AzaSol, water soluble, powdered azadirachtin product developed for biologically−based insect control. AzaSol is manufactured with a patented process resulting in a high potency, powdered azadirachtin product that is water soluble, solvent free and shelf stable for more than two years.

Growing Magazine - April, 2011 PRODUCT FOCUS Chemical Insect & Pest Control Products

Tree pests are a constant battle.To discuss tree pest concerns for 2011 as well as identification and management,Arbor Age recently interviewed Rob Gorden,national sales director for Arborjet.Gorden provides support to municipalities evaluating treatment options for invasive pests across the country.

Arborjet announced the addition of two new members to its sales team. Lee Mangum, the Southwest Regional Manager and Dawn Ranchie Fluharty, the Northwest Regional Manager will support the company’s continued growth in the invasive pest management and plant health business across the western United States. Invasive species such as the Gold Spotted Oak Borer, Mountain and Western Pine Beetle and Red Gum Lerp Psyllid have devastated urban forests across the western United States.

OTTUMWA,IOWA -- UPDATE: KTVO spoke with Arborist Jeff Palmer from Arborjet. He said there are alternatives to cutting down ash trees to avoid the Emerald Ash Borer; which is what the Iowa Department of Natural Resources recommended. The most cost -effective method is giving the ash tree a trunk injection treatment. The injection costs $50-$150 depending on tree size; and lasts two years. Palmer says cutting down ash trees can cost over $1,000 and that the trees serve a major purpose.

AzaSol from Arborjet is a new, water-soluble powdered azadirachtin product developed for biologically based insect control. It is manufactured with a patented process resulting in a very potent powdered azadirachtin product that is also solvent free and shelf stable for more than two years. By mixing AzaSol with water at the time of application, the solubility allows for superior flow, absorption, and utilization by plants.

For the second straight year, unusual weather gave us an extremely challenging start to the season.

An unusually warm winter means additional stress on trees from increased pest pressures.

The city of Winona will spend $80,000 to chemically treat and inoculate up to 4,000 of the city’s ash trees against the emerald ash borer. Earlier this week public works staff presented findings and recommendations on Pointer and TREE-age, insecticides that have been found effective in inoculating ash trees against the destructive ash borer making its way toward Winona.