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Asian longhorned beetle

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Noun1.Asian longhorned beetle - a beetle from China that has been found in the United States and is a threat to hardwood trees; lives inside the tree; no natural predators in the United States
beetle - insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings


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Large beech are declining from beech bark disease, hemlock wooly adelgid is moving north, and Asian longhorned beetle could soon hit maple.
the invader (nonnative) Asian longhorned beetle has wreaked havoc on trees in New York, New Jersey, and Illinois.
Chemical tree-injection has been a successful component of eradication programs for the Asian Longhorned Beetle, a pest similar to Washington's beetle, that in the past decade has infested thousands of trees in Chicago and New York.
 
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