How to Use emerald ash borer in a Sentence

emerald ash borer

noun

• The killer is a shiny green insect from Asia called the emerald ash borer.
  — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 14 June 2018
• The emerald ash borer has destroyed tens of millions of trees in the U.S. and Canada.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022
• Thanks for your question and for keeping an eye out for the emerald ash borer.
  — Kym Pokorny, oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2022
• The despised ash trees had to be cut down as the emerald ash borer laid waste to the cultivar across the Midwest.
  — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 28 June 2018
• Some cities and towns are cutting down the trees to prevent the spread of the emerald ash borer and eliminate the cost of treatment.
  — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 23 Nov. 2021
• And other threats, like Dutch elm disease and the emerald ash borer, also plague the forests.
  — Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• McNee said one of the main ways emerald ash borer spreads is on firewood.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2023
• The emerald ash borer has destroyed tens of millions of trees in the United States and Canada.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2022
• Not every dying ash tree is the result of the emerald ash borer.
  — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2022
• Wierema said with the emerald ash borer beetle, when the signs of stress appear there is little to be done to help the tree.
  — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
• An insect, the emerald ash borer, killed ash trees there, and storms have caused trees to fall into the river from time to time.
  — Tim Zorn, Chicago Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
• Hundreds of ash have toppled over in these woods because of the emerald ash borer.
  — Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Kristian Thacker, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
• The emerald ash borer, radiant and misplaced, has killed all the ash, so what to do but fell it and watch its bark fall off like meat from the bone.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
• The emerald ash borer was first found in Michigan in 2002 and has spread to dozens of states and four Canadian provinces.
  — USA TODAY, 11 July 2019
• Oak wilt and the emerald ash borer continue to spread farther across the state, leaving dead oak and ash in their wake.
  — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
• The emerald ash borer started showing up in the state in 2012 and has now spread across Connecticut.
  — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• In recent years, researchers have released wasps in forests in 30 states where the emerald ash borer is present.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2020
• The emerald ash borer is a beetle that came to the area on shipping crates from foreign countries, Scott said.
  — Mary McIntyre, Lake County News-Sun, 14 June 2019
• Avoid any kind of ash, which will be vulnerable to the emerald ash borer.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• The progress of two invasive insects, the emerald ash borer, and the hemlock wooly adelgid, could be paused across the midwest by the freeze.
  — Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2021
• Broomfield has confirmed emerald ash borer in the city even though foresters have tried to prevent its spread.
  — Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2019
• The center aims to fight the state’s worst invaders, from emerald ash borer beetles to buckthorn.
  — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 2 Dec. 2019
• Native to Asia, the emerald ash borer first appeared in Michigan in 2002.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2020
• The fungi follows the emerald ash borer into trees through the wounds the beetle creates.
  — Star Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
• The emerald ash borer is also threatening green ash trees, one of the more abundant species in the floodplain.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2022
• Then the emerald ash borer, a shiny green invasive insect, came to town.
  — Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 14 June 2018
• The emerald ash borer is a wood-boring beetle native to Asia.
  — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2022
• An iridescent green beetle called the emerald ash borer has laid waste to ash trees.
  — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 14 Aug. 2021
• His final 20-foot piece will feature oversized leaves of trees native to Mount Airy as well as an emerald ash borer, in homage to the tree’s death.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2024
• The trees have fallen or been cut down, namely due to damage from the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle that has decimated ash trees throughout North America.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024