A new website trys to educate people on the dangers of moving firewood. The website can be found here.

A new pesticide has been registered for control of Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipenis).  It shows some promise for controling the borer in areas where EAB is already present but the trees are apparently healthy.  More testing will be done to reinforce these findings.  You can find details about this innovation in the press release.

In the wake of introduced speices wreaking havoc in varoiu areas of the country, some states have begun to regulate the movement of firewood.  New York has just issued an emergency regulation to limit the movement of firewood to 50 miles from where it is harvested.  They have a very nice Frequently Asked Questions seciton explaining the rules and the reasoning behind it. 

Wilmette, Illinois has started a very resourceful program to make use of the ash trees being removed from their city due to emerald ash borer infestations.  This was picked up by the Today Show.  You can watch the story at the MSNBC site.

We've just received a great set of images showing Agrilus planipennis laying eggs!  These images were taken by Marianne Prue from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry.  You can view them at her author page.

As many of you are aware, we have launched the BugwoodWiki; A wiki that has direct access to the Bugwood Image Archives.  Authorship for the wiki is restricted to "BugwoodWiki Scholars"; individuals who have asked to be authors and have some credentials or experience to back up their articles.  We also require the authors to put their name on their articles so that they can be properly credited if the article is used elsewhere.  All of the articles may be used in non-profit, educational publications as long as all of the citations are maintained.

One of the barriers to using any "wiki" is learning the "wiki language".  Although it is a very easy format to write in, the concept of learning a new language and flashbacks of past experiences with HTML is often a deterrent.  To help ease this dread, the Bugwood Network is offering online training sessions.  The first of these training sessions is a basic lesson to get people started.  It will provide people with a basic set of skills to use while editing any MediaWiki system (BugwoodWiki, eXtension, Wikipedia, etc.).

If you are interested in attending a session or just becoming a BugwoodWiki Scholar, contact our webmaster.

Many of you are aware of the new laurel wilt disease that has been moving through the southeast.  Recently, the disease has claimed a 125-year-old red bay in Brunswick, Georgia.  This tree was the oldest red bay in the United States. 

To see the full article, see www.thebrunswicknews.com/open_access/news/347800582466931.php

Daniel Gilrein recently alerted the OrnEnt Listserv to a new addition for the The Louisville Slugger Baseball Bat Company. They have an EAB link on its home page that directs visitors to "Questions and Answers about the Emerald Ash Borer". The link to the website and article may be found at http://www.slugger.com/press/EAB.html.

We try very hard to make sure that the photographer and the organization they work for receive credit whenever an image is used.  Although all of our image detail pages have the citation including the photographers name and organization, there has been some confusion as to the origin of the images based on the tag we apply to the lower right-hand corner of each image...it starts with the prefix 'UGA'

The 'UGA' was meant to denote that the image came from an image archive run by UGA…not that UGA was the source of the image.   There were a few reasons that we started tagging images.

• We spend quite a bit of time putting together the image archive and would like people to know where to find the image and the information pertaining to it. 
• Tagging each image provides a link to our image database and a way for people to easily find a particular image. 

As of today, we have stopped using 'UGA' on our image tags.  This will mainly apply to new images in the system.  We are still tagging the images with a 7-digit number and searching by this number in our system or even on web searches like Google or Yahoo will return that particular image.  Hopefully, the "black and white tag in the lower right" will act as a signal to most people that the image and it's information can be found in the Bugwood Image Database.
 

Many of you are aware of the little green menace that has been spreading from Michigan.  The most recent reports are now from Fayette County in West Virginia!  The discovery was made thanks to the trap trees used to provide early detection of this pest.  You can read the full details of this story at this link.

You can view images of this pest in our EAB image gallery.