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Free Kit Helps Educators Empower Students to Become ‘Beetle Busters’

April 07, 2011 Christine Markham, National ALB Eradication Program Director, Raleigh, NC

A free curriculum available online can help educators teach students how to spot the invasive Asian longhorned beetle. Infestations of the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) have been initially reported by alert members of communities in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and Massachusetts. As summer...

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Beetle Eradication Staff Helps Community with Toy and Food Drives

April 07, 2011 Rhonda Santos, APHIS Public Affairs Specialist, Worcester, MA

The Asian Longhorned Beetle eradication staff in Worcester looks for pests up in the tree but also leaves presents under the tree. The Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) eradication program in Worcester, Mass., began when a resident from the Greendale neighborhood found a strange-looking insect in her...

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