The below was on the entomology list and I post to show the millions spent
to *document* the spread of an unstoppable pest brought in like varroa with
our love affair with cheap crap made in Asia.

The spread of varroa is well documented as is the movement of AHb bees from
Brazil.

Millions spent over the years if not billions! Not on solutions but on 
documentation.

I see control of a problem or attempts as money well spent but documentation
*in my opinion* is a waste *most* off the time. Especially county to county
movement.

Notice the cost to taxpayers of purchasing, setting, maintaining and
analyzing the traps is never talked about as our grandkids can pay the
costs!

Grumpy old taxpayer.


Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 12:08 PM
Subject: USDA sets 61,500 traps in 48 states to track the emerald ash
borer...


> US survey helps shed light on forest-damaging bugBy MICHAEL
> FELBERBAUM, Associated Press
>
> RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Triangular, purple kite-like contraptions placed
> in trees across the country are helping state and federal agriculture
> officials learn more about a deadly beetle that has killed tens of
> millions of ash trees in the United States and Canada and threatens
> countless more.
>
> The 61,500 traps installed in 48 states are part of a survey led and
> funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to track the emerald ash
> borer, a species native to China and eastern Asia that was first
> detected in the U.S. in 2002. The invasive pest likely arrived inside
> wood packing material from Asia and has since been detected in 15
> states through the national survey using the purple traps that has
> been done annually since 2008.
>
> Currently the USDA has quarantined West Virginia, Pennsylvania,
> Indiana, Illinois and the lower peninsula of Michigan. Certain areas
> of other states, like Virginia, also have quarantines, which means
> that ash trees, logs or nursery trees cannot be transported out of
> that specific area.
>
> The 2011 survey shows the tiny, green beetle hasn't been detected
> outside of the states where it's already known to exist, but the bug
> has been found in about 60 more counties in those states, said Sharon
> Lucik with the USDA's emerald ash borer program. Some states have not
> yet completed their reports.
>
> Full:http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j1M0lvryZoLdPRskHDxaBEe29Nnw?docId=3ac6b0b43779480ca41bf7edf0bd82a3
> or: http://bit.ly/tLZdd0

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