I have had email conversations with Dr. Dan Herms, Prof. of Entomology and lead researcher at Ohio State for years and this is what he said yesterday after I asked him a few questions.
"The rate of spread in order of magnitude is slower than eab, and trees survive much longer as the tree can tolerate alb feeding, which is deep in the sapwood and heartwood, much better than the phloem feeding of eab.
Alb tends to cause more structural damage resulting in breaking up in ice and wind storms. Insecticides are not very effective on infested trees because larvae feed deep in the wood.
Insecticides are targeted at adults while they are doing maturation feeding on small twigs prior to laying eggs."
It seems these two "inside" infestations are similar in some ways, and one is worse than the other in some ways.
How do you guys in infestation areas deal with being "Regulated"? Is it enforced and monitored in quarantine zones? They did absolutely nothing with quarantine here with eab although they talked a big game. No funding and depleted or eliminated staffs.
